Expert Network Time Protocol: An Experience in Time with NTP

Have you ever tried to figure out why your computer clock is off, or why your emails somehow have the wrong timestamp? Most likely, it’s due to an incorrect network time synchronization, which can be reset using the Network Time Protocol. Until now, most network administrators have been too paranoid to work with this, afraid that they would make the problem even worse. However, Expert Network Time Protocol: An Experience in Time with NTP takes the mystery out of time, and shows the network administrator how to regain the upper hand.

This book is a fascinating look into NTP, and the stories behind the science. Written by Peter Rybaczyk, one of the foremost experts on NTP, this book will show the Network Administrator how to become more comfortable working with time.

About the Author

Peter Rybaczk is an internetworking consultant, a technical author, an IT seminar conductor, and a business owner. He began his IT career as an application programmer, database administrator, and network administrator for the Summit University Press publishing house during the 1980s. After starting his first consulting business in 1990, he worked with telecom equipment vendors (Nortel Networks, Ericsson, Cisco Systems), local and regional ISPs, VoIP providers, law firms, health care providers, auto dealerships, and banks. Rybaczyk has designed, installed, and managed numerous LANs and WANs in diverse multiprotocol environments. And he has delivered more than 120 IT seminars world-wide. Earlier in the decade, he was involved for two years in the design, deployment, configuration, and management of a nationwide VoIP network in the United States.

During his training career, Rybaczyk has conducted seminars on VoIP, routing protocols (OSPF and BGP), the TCP/IP protocol suite, Cisco routers and switches, network management, WAN switches, and data networks design and optimization. He has developed custom training courses on Cisco WAN management products, OSPF, rapid development tools, and VoIP that he has delivered to audiences in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Asia. He is a former Certified Cisco Systems Instructor (CCSI) and was the master of ceremonies at VoIP Congress 2003 in Singapore and VoIP Congress 2004 in Kuala Lumpur.

Rybaczyk has a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He also holds several industry certifications including CNE, CCNA, and CCNP. Rybaczyk's IT consulting firm, Convergent Netcom Services, is located in Tucson, Arizona.