Re: [Plugins-writers] Unsynchronised clock detection

From: Michel Arboi (mikhail@private)
Date: Mon Sep 27 2004 - 11:52:14 PDT


On Fri Sep 24 2004 at 15:00, Renaud Deraison wrote:

> - The current code actually checks for 3 drifts : one in ICMP, one in
>   NTP and one in HTTP. It's a safe bet to assume that the remote host is
>   constistent with itself, and exit after the first answer we get
>   (ie: if the ICMP timestamp is correct, exit right away instead of
>    trying NTP and HTTP).

Looking at HTTP is interesting: the target might be running a
reverse proxy.
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