There are what appears to be a statistically significant number of reports this week of possible anomalies with NTP timekeeping in various parts of the net. Given how fundamental NTP is to many things -- including many types of authentication -- it would seem to be a good idea to set your "is there something wrong with NTP" bit, such that you're keeping an eye on the issue. If you have monitoring on your NTP servers; watch it. If you have monitoring, but not on your NTP servers, perhaps that would be a good project for the short week. If you don't have any network monitoring at all, let me recommend Munin, Cacti, and Nagios, in that order, of packages I have experience with, and I hear good things about Zabbix, too. Remember: "I can't log in" and "I get this weird error when going to a secure website" are top-drawer indications that your timebase may be off. Followups to -discussion, please. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274