Measuring NTPd in the Cloud II

 The problem with ntpd is the sudden performance degradations which can occur when conditions deviate from ‘ideal’. We have detailed these robustness issues of ntpd in prior work, including [17, 18]. Simply put, when path delay variability exceeds some threshold, which is a complex function

NTPd DOS attacks

Miscreants who earlier this week took down servers for League of Legends, EA.com, and other online game services used a never-before-seen technique that vastly amplified the amount of junk traffic directed at denial-of-service targets. Rather than directly flooding the targeted services with

Time Maps in Action

This shows a time map for a client (center) that is getting NTP time from a variety of standard internet NTP servers and via a customer site (to the left). A TimeKeeper Pocket GrandMaster (bottom left) is serving multiple Stratum