authority system clock troubles?

Scott Bennett bennett at cs.niu.edu
Wed Sep 3 01:13:22 UTC 2008


     My notices-level log for the last six hours reads:

Sep 02 14:10:24.852 [warn] Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at 194.109.206.212:443.  It seems that our clock is ahead by 1 hours, 0 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings.
Sep 02 14:25:09.100 [notice] Downloading consensus from 86.59.21.38 using /tor/status-vote/current/consensus.z
Sep 02 14:51:01.970 [warn] Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at 194.109.206.212:443.  It seems that our clock is ahead by 1 hours, 40 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings.
Sep 02 15:26:08.372 [notice] Downloading consensus from 88.198.7.215 using /tor/status-vote/current/consensus.z
Sep 02 15:28:10.330 [notice] Downloading consensus from 86.59.21.38 using /tor/status-vote/current/consensus.z
Sep 02 15:34:23.180 [warn] Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at 194.109.206.212:443.  It seems that our clock is ahead by 2 hours, 24 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings.
Sep 02 15:38:20.816 [notice] Downloading consensus from 216.224.124.114:9030 using /tor/status-vote/current/consensus.z
Sep 02 16:03:45.142 [notice] Downloading consensus from 128.31.0.34:9031 using /tor/status-vote/current/consensus.z
Sep 02 16:18:03.087 [warn] Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at 194.109.206.212:443.  It seems that our clock is ahead by 3 hours, 7 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings.
Sep 02 17:04:41.073 [warn] Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at 194.109.206.212:443.  It seems that our clock is ahead by 3 hours, 54 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings.
Sep 02 17:27:07.450 [notice] Downloading consensus from 128.31.0.34:9031 using /tor/status-vote/current/consensus.z
Sep 02 17:46:52.627 [warn] Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at 194.109.206.212:443.  It seems that our clock is ahead by 4 hours, 36 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings.
Sep 02 18:04:44.873 [notice] Downloading consensus from 128.31.0.34:9031 using /tor/status-vote/current/consensus.z
Sep 02 18:40:09.854 [warn] Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at 194.109.206.212:443.  It seems that our clock is ahead by 5 hours, 30 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings.
Sep 02 19:11:51.021 [notice] Downloading consensus from 128.31.0.34:9031 using /tor/status-vote/current/consensus.z
Sep 02 19:25:54.869 [warn] Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at 194.109.206.212:443.  It seems that our clock is ahead by 6 hours, 15 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings.
Sep 02 20:02:40.898 [notice] Downloading consensus from 128.31.0.34:9031 using /tor/status-vote/current/consensus.z

It looks to me as though the system clocks on the machines running the moria1
and dizum directory authorities are set wrong.  My system's clock appears to
be fine, and the consensus fetches from the other authorities checked during
this time period also appear to be okay.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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