2019 was a big year for the Network Time Foundation. New software releases, attendance at global events and growth in memberships were among our many accomplishments. Following is a list of achievements by quarter that we are particularly proud of: Q1 Release of NTP 4.2.8 p13 Noted Membership Renewals Facebook Cox Microchip (formerly Microsemi) Completion… Read More
Stratum Servers & The Challenges Of Geography
Fascinating article on implementing stratum servers in lesser-developed areas of the world: https://publicntp.org/blog/posts/What-Goes-Into-Deployment.html
An Appropriate Time For A Reminder
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NTP Packet Capture
Great blog post on capturing and wire-sharking the Network Time Protocol: https://blog.webernetz.net/packet-capture-network-time-protocol-ntp/
GPS Week Rollover Coming – Timing/IOT Users Have Responsibilities Too!
Important event coming up in April to be aware of… https://rntfnd.org/2019/01/14/gps-week-rollover-coming-users-have-responsibilities-too/
NTP Best Practices
Informative article worth revisiting covering Network Time Protocol best practices. Scroll down for details on using Public NTP for external hosts and configuring your own Internal NTP hierarchical service for your network: https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2017/04/best-practices-for-ntp-services.html
2018 – A Year Of Growth & Development
2018 was a year of growth and development at the Network Time Foundation. A tremendous amount of work was accomplished and, importantly, the foundations of what will be an incredible 2019 have been put down. Important Technical Achievements over the past twelve months included: Two security releases – 4.2.8p11 and 4.2.8p12 (Details available on the… Read More
Running Own NTP Servers
Informative article on the importance to security of running NTP servers: https://blog.webernetz.net/why-should-i-run-own-ntp-servers/ “If you want to operate a secure environment you should use your own on-site stratum 1 NTP servers along with authentication. This is the only way to eliminate time spoofing attacks from the outside. Don’t reduce your overall security to a stateless and unauthenticated… Read More
Exciting News! Time Server App Is Live!
Check out the latest announcement from PublicNTP. The new Time Server App has launched. https://publicntp.org/blog/posts/bring-time-to-the-world.html Time Server App: https://timeserver.app/
The Importance Of Time To Networks & Databases
Very interesting recent brief case study on the deep value of precision time and synchronization to computer networks and, in particular, databases. “Clocks are important – don’t lock down you VPC so much that NTP stops working.” https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres
