Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a highly scalable internet protocol that helps determine the most accurate time information and synchronizes the time settings on a computer system. In order to ...

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Can anyone point me to a reliable public NTP time server service? I've been told that I have 2 weeks to find a provider, open the firewall and get it running for an Active Directory rollout. You would ...

Local clock inaccuracy is so miniscule as to not merit mention with respect to NTP. (around three orders of magnitude difference). Click to expand... For bare metal, yes. For virtual, no. Fire up ntpd ...

Using the Network Time Protocol will ensure that precise time syncs exist on your Linux and Windows Server, crucial if you want your Linux machine to connect to a Windows domain. There are plenty of ...

Setting up a Unix system to be an NTP client is generally straightforward. On those Unix platforms that include NTP in the default configuration, you may only need to make a few adjustments to NTP’s ...

You're a typical system administrator, with a million and two urgent things to do before you get to go home for the day. Next on your list is bringing up a new NTP server for your department so your ...

The number of NTP (Network Time Protocol) servers that can be abused to amplify DDoS attacks has decreased dramatically this year, but the threat remains. DDoS (distributed denial of service) ...

Distributed denial of service attacks that take advantage of misconfigured NTP servers were up 276 percent last quarter compared to the same time last year, reaching a new record high, according to a ...

In today’s post, we will identify the cause when SpecialPollInterval is used as a polling interval, the Windows Time Service shows incorrect time if the service gets into Spike state – and then ...