[Dnsmasq-discuss] Dnsmasq not resolving addresses for an hour

[wkitty42 at gmail.com]

On 10/14/2016 02:52 AM, Vladislav Grishenko wrote:
> Hi, Albert,
>
>> 1. HAVE_BROKEN_RTC should be used for, well, broken RTCs. Here, we are
>> not dealing with broken RTC.
>
> Root issue from original mail:
>> One of which acknowledges potential problem if the clock goes backwards...
> As for me it's indeed broken RTC behavior, not?

not... what defines a "broken RTC"? the time can easily be set back during a NTP 
update... how far back can it be set before there's a problem? 1 millisecond? 1 
hundredth of a second? 1 tenth of a second? 1 second?


case in point: recovering from Hurricane Matthew... three days without power... 
while bring up the network, several machines had reverted to their default time 
settings in the BIOS... on several of them, that was back in 2002... the people 
bringing the machines up set the BIOS time manually and allowed the boot to 
continue... on some machines, NTP syncing is run from cron at some time 
period... others use NTP and adjust the clock by drift... manually setting the 
time and then allowing NTP to set it more accurately can easily result in the 
clock being set back by NTP... we won't even mention the problem of setting the 
clock to local time and the machine using UTC so when NTP syncs, there can be a 
huge (4, 5, 6, 7, 8+) hour jump backwards...


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