Gareth Halfacree » router http://gareth.halfacree.co.uk "Work hard, have fun, enjoy." Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:04:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Router fun and games http://gareth.halfacree.co.uk/2009/10/router-fun-and-games http://gareth.halfacree.co.uk/2009/10/router-fun-and-games#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:22:20 +0000 Gareth http://gareth.halfacree.co.uk/?p=364 I came home tonight to find that my Internet connection had crapped out, but that’s not what this post is about.  This post is about how Billion – that is, the company rather than the oft-misused numerical value – software engineers are perhaps not the sharpest tools in the box.

After restarting my router, the syslog spat out the following:

Jan  1 00:01:33 DDNS: DynDNS can not be reliable if SNTP -time server do not
reply to modem correctly, Please fix SNTP -server address.
Oct 21 19:13:50 syslog: NTP current time is Wed Oct 21 19:13:50 2009

That’s the DDNS service complaining that things might go wrong if it doesn’t know the current time – followed by the NTP service updating to the current time.  Apparently making those two things run the other way around is too logical.

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