David Barry

Great blog post on capturing and wire-sharking the Network Time Protocol: https://blog.webernetz.net/packet-capture-network-time-protocol-ntp/  

Important event coming up in April to be aware of… https://rntfnd.org/2019/01/14/gps-week-rollover-coming-users-have-responsibilities-too/  

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  

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

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/

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

Is a piece from 2016 titled: “Why Microsoft Is Turning Into An Open-Source Company” prescient? https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-microsoft-is-turning-into-an-open-source-company/ From the article: As Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation‘s executive director, has said, open source “shared development is enabling faster development with higher quality and lower costs. This is causing the software value chain to change.” Microsoft gets this. And, it’s… Read More