contact Katie (her server causing Windows users to not stake due to clock off issue?)

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contact Katie (her server causing Windows users to not stake due to clock off issue?) #36

Closed Erkan-Yilmaz closed 7 years ago

Erkan-Yilmaz commented 7 years ago

it seems: Windows users can not create blocks due to clock off issue :-(

further info: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/52040-clock-issues/
pic: https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-Research/issues/186

It's not clear yet from where this originates, but it is not @grctest 's servers

so: Katie ?

also her irc bot has RPC trouble. her wallet not running perhaps ?

to be clear this is just a thought, don't go witch-hunting :-(

mentioned in hangout 22:

TG13088 commented 7 years ago

RPC's are usually time-stamp dependent and require some relative degree of synchronization. All systems using RPC's should use a common time methodology such as NTP or SNTP. Thought must be given to using local time or more probably, preferably GMT/UTC. This would aid support staff by eliminating the need to convert to GMT/UTC while matching Messaging/Events across the multiple servers.

grctest commented 7 years ago

Has anyone reached out to katiee then? I don't think she's running a full node TBH..

If she's not on IRC, she's on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/id/Kati3e

RononDex commented 7 years ago

Any update on this? My fullfillment has been at 0% for 2 days now because of this bug

grctest commented 7 years ago

It's not katiee's server, the time diagnostics uses:

Dim sNISTHOST As String = "time-nw.nist.gov" 'Atomic Clock Time Server in UTC

https://github.com/gridcoin/Gridcoin-Research/blob/4efc4a1abe85f69dcca4e6b95154226ba9f9ff64/contrib/Installer/boinc/boinc/GRCDiagnostics.vb#L10

Where did people get the impression this had anything to do with katiee? lol...

http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi

The time-nw.nist.gov time server has been permenantly shutdown. This was the root cause, not another user's wallet.