{"id":9349,"date":"2009-10-22T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=9349"},"modified":"2026-08-28T10:29:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:29:33","slug":"ntp-srv-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/infrastructure\/networks\/ntp\/ntp-srv-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Local NTP server list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most flavors of Unix this information will belong in \/etc\/ntp.conf, check your local documentation to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>Our campus NTP server pool is <strong>ntp-pool.bu.edu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you require an IP Address, please submit a ticket at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/contact\">www.bu.edu\/tech\/contact<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We recommend that you use our campus NTP servers for your time needs. Our servers are rigorously maintained and synchronize with a variety of external time sources which are chosen based on geographic location, clock accuracy, and redundancy of network paths over both the Internet and Internet-2.<\/p>\n<p><span>NTP comes preconfigured on BU systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BU NTP servers are not available to systems off-campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most flavors of Unix this information will belong in \/etc\/ntp.conf, check your local documentation to be sure. Our campus NTP server pool is ntp-pool.bu.edu. If you require an IP Address, please submit a ticket at www.bu.edu\/tech\/contact We recommend that you use our campus NTP servers for your time needs. Our servers are rigorously maintained&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2618,"featured_media":0,"parent":1201,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9349"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162960,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9349\/revisions\/162960"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}