NTP users are strongly urged to take immediate action to ensure that their NTP daemons are not susceptible to being used in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Please also take this opportunity to defeat denial-of-service attacks by implementing Ingress and Egress filtering through BCP38.

ntp-4.2.8p12 was released on 14 August 2018. It addresses 1 low-/medium-severity security issue in ntpd, 1 low-severity security issue in ntpq and ntpdc, and provides 27 non-security bugfixes and 4 other improvements over 4.2.8p11.

Please see the NTP Security Notice for vulnerability and mitigation details.

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The NTP Project

The NTP Project produces a reference implementation of the NTP protocol, and implementation documentation, through a largely a volunteer effort. The NTP software distribution is copyrighted, as described in the NTP copyright page.

A list of reference clocks, ntp documentation, time and frequency standard stations, and time and frequency standard station transmission data is maintained at the Information on Time and Frequency Services page. Background information about NTP, along with briefings and a bibliography, are available at the Network Time Synchronization Project page.