When you want to synchronize files between remote network equipment and servers at a main facility, all computers must have the accurate Universal Time Coordinated, or UTC, an official standard for ...

In order for a server in your business to sync its time with that of a client computer, it needs to use what is known as Network Time Protocol (NTP). When your NTP server is working correctly, all ...

Chances are you’ve heard about network protocol in the past but likely have little idea of what it is all about. For sure right now, we can say that there are different types of network protocols ...

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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 ...

Researchers involved with Moonv6, the world’s largest native IPv6 test bed, have demonstrated that the Network Time Protocol runs over IPv6, the long anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main ...

SEATTLE -- We're foolish. We live our lives on the internet and we take it for granted. We don't realize that the internet is fragile as a Chihuly glass sculpture. As 2014 OpenSSL Heartbleed security ...

Cheap GPS units are readily available nowadays, which is great if you have something that needs to be very precisely located. Finding the position of things is one of many uses for GPS, though. There ...

Serious weaknesses in the Internet’s time-synchronization mechanism can be exploited to cause debilitating outages, snoop on encrypted communications, or tamper with Bitcoin transactions, computer ...

Everyone benefits from Network Time Protocol, but the project struggles to pay its sole maintainer or fund its various initiatives There are two types of open source projects: those with corporate ...