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
News
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
Is The Future Of All Software Development Open-Source?
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
