up_the_irons: hehe, yeah, I ran a freebsd mirror for a while
up_the_irons: it's certainly not easy on the disk space
Heh.
I was thinking about serving NTP from my server, but then I saw that they already have over a dozen servers in CA.
CaZe: heh, terrible idea.
assuming everyone plays nice it's negligible bandwidth
but it keeps coming forever and ever amen.
and sometimes people do something stupid like dlink did.
slashdot had some dude who got his hosting account somewhere suspended because someone reported him "hacking them on port 123"
speaking of NTP: http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-during-a-leap-second
date; date `date +"%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S"`; date
should fix the leap second
seems like alot of java apps are affected.
tomcat servers and what not.