Re: ntpd: leap-seconds.list expiration

From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd_at_quip.cz>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:46:30 UTC 
On 13/12/2023 05:03, Michael Proto wrote:
> Noticed recently (in both my upgraded and newly-installed hosts) that 
> the leap-seconds.list file is in danger of expiration very soon (12/28). 
> It appears the default download location in /etc/defaults/rc.conf 
> (https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list 
> <https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list>) no longer 
> carries this file, or at least it says plainly so when I try to fetch it.
> 
> I've been able to work around it locally by 
> setting ntp_leapfile_sources="https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/leap-seconds.list <https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/leap-seconds.list>" in /etc/rc.conf from IERS, though in searching where to fetch this there are questions of copyright in regards to distribution so while this should work for end-users I don't know how applicable this would be upstream (submitted https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=275737 <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=275737>). I figured I'd throw it out here for visibility to operators as my workaround should work in that case.

Thank you for this link! I tried to find actual file yesterday. Now I 
fixed it in ntp_leapfile_sources on all my machines.

Best regards
Miroslav Lachman