[LEAPSECS] stale leap second information

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <20150114115758.gvGCdclG%sdaoden at yandex.com>, Steffen Nurpmeso write
s:
>"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> |In message <54B621B5.1080909 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:
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> |>> About one year ago I contacted the folks at IERS and asked them to put
> |>> an expiration date into their leap second file since the existing one
> |>> didn't have one.
> |
> |What would be really useful would be if they provided the current
> |leapsecond count and the date of the next (if known) via DNS.
> |
> |DNS because it has built in caching and works almost everywhere.
>
>Or a new NTP protocol, that would only require a software update
>of NTP servers.

NTP is a much more specialized protocol than DNS and it is blocked
a lot of places.

>The current one is obsolete anyway in ~20 years,

The new one is called PTP, but there's probably 30 years of life
left in NTP still.


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