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-4.2.8p15 was released on 23 June 2020. It addresses 1 medium-severity security issue in ntpd, and provides 13 non-security bugfixes over 4.2.8p13.

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

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Are you using Autokey in production? If so, please contact Harlan - he's got some questions for you.

• Server list entry maintainer:
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = JayDaley
• Servers are restricted to NZ and Pacific Island networks.
• Clients should use host names of p[1-3].ntp.net.nz or s[1-3].ntp.net.nz as explained in acceptable use policy on http://ntp.net.nz