NTP stands for Network Time Protocol. It is an application layer protocol.
Network Time Protocol (NTP), discussed in RFCs 1305 and 2030, provides a distributed mechanism for synchronizing the system clocks on computers across a network.
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An accurate time provider, contributes with the NTP Pool Project.
Several well-documented projects involving implementing and testing NTP.
Report by Dave Plonka on the massive problems caused on the University of Wisconsin network and time servers, due to misconfiguration of NetGear equipment.
Galleon Systems provides time synchronisation hardware and software solutions.
Discussion group on NTP. May require a Google login.
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.
The network time foundation develops, produces and maintains the most widely used open source time synchronisation software.
A discussion of why and how to set up NTP software. Some information is specific to the University, some is more general.
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.
Understanding and using the Network Time Protocol (A first try on a non-technical Mini-HOWTO and FAQ on NTP)
A big virtual cluster of timeservers providing reliable easy to use NTP service for millions of clients.
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.
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.
The current NTP standard. Available here in HTML, PDF, and Postscript formats.
The current standard for SNTP, a version of the protocol for implementations which do not need all of the features of NTP. Available here in HTML, PDF, and Postscript formats.
Four page document that gives a very simple high-level overview of how NTP works and some of the issues to be considered when looking to set up NTP time servers. This company is a vendor of NTP time servers and related hardware.
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The current NTP standard. Available here in HTML, PDF, and Postscript formats.
The current standard for SNTP, a version of the protocol for implementations which do not need all of the features of NTP. Available here in HTML, PDF, and Postscript formats.
An accurate time provider, contributes with the NTP Pool Project.
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.
Four page document that gives a very simple high-level overview of how NTP works and some of the issues to be considered when looking to set up NTP time servers. This company is a vendor of NTP time servers and related hardware.
[PDF]
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.
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.
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.
A discussion of why and how to set up NTP software. Some information is specific to the University, some is more general.
Several well-documented projects involving implementing and testing NTP.
The network time foundation develops, produces and maintains the most widely used open source time synchronisation software.
Discussion group on NTP. May require a Google login.
Galleon Systems provides time synchronisation hardware and software solutions.
A big virtual cluster of timeservers providing reliable easy to use NTP service for millions of clients.
Report by Dave Plonka on the massive problems caused on the University of Wisconsin network and time servers, due to misconfiguration of NetGear equipment.
Understanding and using the Network Time Protocol (A first try on a non-technical Mini-HOWTO and FAQ on NTP)
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