NTP: Timing is Everything

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 28, 2010 11:16 AM EDT
Linux Magazine; By Ken Hess
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What’s the one thing that you see criminals, spies and other mysterious individuals doing just prior to embarking on a caper? If you said, “synchronize their watches” you guessed correctly. And, why do they do it? Because timing is everything. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) does the same thing for your systems and for the same reasons; it keeps them synchronized.

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