Possible abuse from fetching the leap second file

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Mon Aug 15 21:20:23 UTC 2016


Matthew.Selsky at twosigma.com said:
> This file is only on some distributions: Jessie has the file: https://
> packages.debian.org/jessie/all/tzdata/filelist Wheezy does not have the
> file: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/tzdata/filelist

I was assuming that it would be good enough if the file was available on the 
latest supported release.  That's assuming that future releases will continue 
to support it.

The current code works without a leap file.  It uses a local refclock or a 
majority vote of the servers it is using.

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