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The Register UK ☛ Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Kim" who was asked to investigate an air-gapped lab in which time had become unhelpfully inconsistent.
"The problem was that an application server was more than five minutes out of sync with the domain controller that served as the lab’s Network Time Protocol (NTP) server," Kim told On Call.
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