[LEAPSECS] New Years financial trouble

[Tom Van Baak]

Too bad they don't explain the problem in any detail. Sure the "root cause" was bad data from time.apple.com but it would be interesting, and educational, to see how the dominoes fell in their massive infrastructure.

/tvb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Allen" <sla at ucolick.org>
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Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 9:11 PM
Subject: [LEAPSECS] New Years financial trouble



> Some financial transaction processor (who remains nameless) had their

> servers go into livelock at the beginning of the year.

> 

> http://status.simple.com/2013/01/07/nye-postmortem/

> 

> Blame for the bogus leap flag is thrown at the NTP server run by Apple.

> 

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