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04th January 2012

Hospital Clocks with an NTP Server – Perfect for the Hospital Campus Setting

Very commonly, a hospital will be comprised of more than just one or two buildings. Well known hospitals such as CHOP in Philadelphia or John Hopkins in Baltimore, have their main centralized buildings, and also are surrounded by multiple other buildings...

03rd October 2011

IP Clocks—Keeping the Office Complex in Line

These days, Internet Protocol (IP) infrastructure has become a staple to the standard office complex facility. Businesses throughout the world find themselves relying on this network technology day in and day out to operate. From voice-over-IP (VOIP) tele...

13th December 2010

JN0-130 Exam Questions

It is well known that JN0-130 exam test is the hot exam of Juniper Networks certification. TestInside offer you all the Q&A of the JN0-130 real test . It is the examination of the perfect combination and it will help you pass JN0-130 exam at the first tim...

16th July 2009

NTP and Linux

Linux based operating systems are increasing in popularity all the time. Commercial operating systems like Windows and OS X are constantly being bombarded by viruses and security breaches. There are few viruses that can touch a Linux system and they are o...

16th July 2009

A Natural NTP Server?

There are chronologists all over the world working constantly to find new ways of telling time that are the most accurate that can possibly be created. The first atomic clocks were developed in the 1950's and thus began the race for millisecond accuracy. ...

26th February 2009

How To Synchronise Your Windows PC to a Time Server

Do you regularly need to correct the time on your PC? The answer is probably "Yes!". This is because computers have very poor time-keeping hardware. Often, the system clock in a regular PC can drift by minutes each day. However, help is at hand. It is ver...

18th December 2008

Configuring a Simple NTP Time Server

NTP, or Network Time Protocol, is a standard protocol for synchronising time on computers and network equipment. NTP allows client computers to synchronise with a reference NTP server over a computer network. The protocol was originally developed for the ...

23rd September 2008

Network Time Protocol (NTP), Understanding Synchronisation.

Network Time Protocol seems to have been around for ever. In fact it is indeed one of the Internet's oldest protocols having been developed in the 1980's by Professor David Mills and his team from Delaware University. In a laid-back world it perhaps do...

23rd September 2008

NTP Server - Receiving a Time Source

A NTP Server connects to a computer network with the purpose of synchronising all computers, routers and other devices to the exact same time. NTP servers use Network Time Protocol to adjust the drift of different machines to match the reference time. ...

05th September 2008

Time Synchronization Basics: Configuring Windows as an NTP Server

Time synchronization is vital in modern computer networks. Having one machine running a slower clock than another can cause a myriad of all sorts of problems. From the benign, such as emails arriving before they were sent, to the more serious such as bei...

28th August 2008

NTP Server - Keeping Track of Time.

When you set your watch by the speaking clock or the radio beeps have you ever wondered who is responsible for setting that time and how they can be sure it is accurate. This may seem like a straightforward question but their is no master clock that th...

29th July 2008

How to Build and Configure Your Own Radio Referenced NTP Time Server

Many people are probably familiar with the Internet Time tab when setting their clock in Windows. This is a basic form of NTP (Network Time Protocol) called SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) that polls a NTP server every so often to synchronize time to....

24th July 2008

Use a NTP Server To Keep Precise Network Time

Computers systems have internal real-time clocks that are notoriously poor at keeping accurate time. Hence, the time on all computers and network devices can drift away from one another at different rates. This can be a real headache when trying to synchr...

16th July 2008

NTP Vandalism: Solutions to the Misuse and Abuse of NTP Servers

NTP servers, like most systems are open to abuse and misuse. NTP servers can be flooded with traffic (a distributed denial of service - DDoS attack), the server's access policy could be violated or the NTP rules of engagement drawn up to prevent misuse of...

03rd July 2008

The Basics of an NTP Server

NTP servers or Network Time Protocol are devices that connect to a computer network and synchronise all machines to a single time source. Of course most Windows operating systems have an inbuilt NTP program called Windows Time that can synchronise to an I...

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