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Home of the Network Time Protocol - http://www.ntp.org/
NTP official reference implementation (for Unix and Unix-like OSes, with ports to Microsoft Windows NT, VMS, real-time OSes like VxWorks and QNX). Also jumping-off point to the official NTP documentation and FAQ, community documentation tools (twiki), pool.ntp.org, and related projects. |
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pool.ntp.org: The Internet Time Network - http://www.pool.ntp.org/
Information on a collection of public NTP servers provided by users and ISP's placed in a DNS round-robin under pool.ntp.org. |
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Network Time Synchronization Project - http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp.html
NTP Project page for Dr. Mills, primary NTP researcher for over twenty years. He and his students are working on NTP version 4 to improve robustness and security. |
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NTP Servers Web - http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome
Community maintained list of public Stratum 1 and Stratum 2 NTP time servers, including policies and requirements for use, contact information. Maintained via the NTP TWiki, by the admins of the respective sites themselves. |
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NTP Support Web - http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/WebHome
Not the official NTP documentation or the official NTP FAQ. Intended to be the collection point for cookbook configurations, tips, hints, tricks, and other comments from directly from various members of the NTP community that might be beneficial to others within the community. Anyone who is interested in helping to develop or improve documentation for NTP is encouraged to join and contribute. |
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Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server - http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
Report by Dave Plonka on the massive problems caused on the University of Wisconsin network and time servers, due to misconfiguration of NetGear equipment |
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O'Reilly Cisco Cookbook - http://safari.oreilly.com/0596003676
This book gathers hundreds of example router configurations all in one place. In chapter 14, the authors provide information on configuring, running, and debugging NTP on your Cisco router. This link via O'Reilly's Safari network for online publications. |
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The NTP FAQ and HOWTO - http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-a-faq.htm
Understanding and using the Network Time Protocol (A first try on a non-technical Mini-HOWTO and FAQ on NTP) |
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Vendor: Sun Blueprints Online: Using NTP to Control and Synchronize System Clocks - Part I: Introduction to NTP - http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/NTP.pdf
This article is the first of a series on the Network Time Protocol (NTP). NTP allows synchronizing clocks on different network nodes, which is critical in today's networked world. This first article provides an overview of why time synchronization is important and introduces basic NTP concepts. |
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Vendor: Sun Blueprints Online: Using NTP to Control and Synchronize System Clocks - Part II: Basic NTP Administration and Architecture - http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0801/NTPpt2.pdf
This is Part 2 of a three-article series that discusses how to use Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize system clocks. This article explains the basics of client and server administration, covering various client/server configurations, as well as authentication and access control mechanisms. This article also provides a number of suggestions for an effective NTP architecture. |
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Vendor: Sun Blueprints Online: Using NTP to Control and Synchronize System Clocks - Part III: NTP Monitoring and Troubleshooting - http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0901/NTPpt3.pdf
This article is the third in a series of three articles that discuss using Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize system clocks. The goal of this article is to provide an effective understanding of NTP troubleshooting and monitoring. |
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LinuxDevCenter.com: Synchronizing Networks with NTP - http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/01/02/ntp.html
Accurate timekeeping is vital to accurate records, and accurate logs are the mainstay of good system administration. Glenn Graham explains NTP (the Network Time Protocol) and how to put it to work on your network. |
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Vendor: Sun Blueprints Online: Using NTP on the Sun Fire 15K/12K Server - http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0603/817-2979.pdf
This article addresses the time skew issues for the Sun Fire 12K/F15K server and explains how the system controllers and domains can be configured as NTP clients to external servers. A sample configuration is also provided. This article is targeted to the intermediate level of expertise. |
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O'Reilly Hardening Cisco Routers - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hardcisco/chapter/ch10.html
Sample chapter from the book, showing the cisco-specific methods of configuring your routers to support using NTP time synchronization. |
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NTP Statistics Gathering and Reporting with MRTG - http://www.david-taylor.myby.co.uk/ntp/NTPandMRTG.txt
David Taylor's short description of how he uses MRTG (and SNMP) to gather and report statistics for NTP for his servers, including Perl scripts, shell scripts, and mrtg.conf examples |