Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985. Benj Edwards – Jan 19, 2024 3:05 pm | 89 A photo of David L. Mills taken by Raul654 on April 27, 2005.

NTP, the protocol that keeps time across the internet, was in danger of running out of money. The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) has stepped up to keep it going.

What’s more, the sophistication of NTP timing is increasing, while the NTP protocol itself remains unchanged. Now we’re enabling our customer to deploy robust, ...

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 ...

The NTP is a protocol that’s used to synchronize the time on servers across networks. It’s ubiquitous and that fact has made it a useful tool for attackers in DDoS attacks in recent years.

In the late 1970s he invented the Network Time Protocol, known forevermore to programmers as NTP. Part of Dr. Mills’s insight was to build a system that ranked various computers in a network by ...

All ntp-4 stable releases from 4.2.5p186 through 4.2.8p3 appear to be vulnerable, but upgrading to ntp-4.2.8p4 fixes these problems. Until then, the best defence is to use firewall software to ...

NTP servers help people synchronize their servers to very precise time increments. Recently, the protocol was found to suffer from a condition that could be exploited by DoS attackers.

In addition to NTP, Dr. Mills also invented “The Fuzzball,” the first modern router and application server on the Internet, while working at the University of Maryland. Six fuzzball routers were used ...

The Network Time Foundation, the organization that oversees the NTP project, has released version 4.2.8 of the standard protocol implementation to address the vulnerabilities.