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RE: Checkpoint Problems
From: "David Hawley" <chiman () hawaiian net>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 06:56:13 -1000
LOL, an interesting problem. I can tell you that there was a bug in SunOS 3.5 that caused the TOD (Time of Day) to fluctuate wildly, causing the entire Sun community at the time to suffer for a few days until the "TOD patch" could be implemented, and dispatched. The worst effect I saw was that no changes could reliably be made to the "Yellow Pages", now called NIS (network information system) (and NIS+), the reason? any changes you might make were seen as older that the existing files, from the previous wild fluctuation. We implemented, a cron job to do an rdate, NTP wasn't in common use back then, but presumably implementing NTP would be a good thing. David Hawley UNIX & NT Network Security, LLC. drh () 123netsecurity com www.123netsecurity.com -----Original Message----- From: firewall-wizards-admin () nfr com [mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () nfr com]On Behalf Of Tim Chettle Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:57 AM To: firewall-wizards () nfr com Subject: [fw-wiz] Checkpoint Problems I am running Firewall 1 4.1 sp5 on Solaris 2.6 recently the time was reset back on the platform by 6 hours which resulted in the HTTP security servers going rogue and consuming approx 70% of cpu cycles and refused any connections to it. Whilst I fully appreciate that setting the clock back is a big no no what I would like to understand is what impact that would have on the state table. Given this behaviour what would happen if I connected the server to an NTP server. _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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