Leap second bug in server takes down The Pirate Bay

The popular torrent hosting site, The Pirate Bay went gone down late last night after a bug in the NTP daemon crashed the Debian Linux powered server. The SuprBay forum, hosted by ThePirateBay put details of what caused the crash. The first impression people got when the site went down was that site might have been blocked by the ISP or the site was taken down by government officials. It turns out that was not the case, as the post made on the forum describes that the site went down due to the bug. The NTP bug is to do with the leap second increment that is added at midnight. A bug in the kernel caused ThePirateBay and some other sites running similar software to crash. When we checked last, the site was still down and it’s likely to be up in the next few hours. The Pirate Bay has gone down in the past for some upgrades. File hosting and torrent hosting sites have come under attack by the media industry and law enforcement agencies around the world.Click here for full story