A list of the Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) time servers that are available on the Internet

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A list of the Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) time servers that are available on the Internet
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SUMMARY

This article describes the Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) time servers that are available on the Internet.
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There are two levels, or tiers, of Network Time Protocol (NTP) time servers that are available on the Internet. The NTP is defined in Request for Comments (RFC) 1305. The first-level time servers are primarily intended to act as source time servers for second-level time servers. The first-level time servers may also be capable of providing mission-critical time services. Some first-level time servers may have a restricted access policy. Second-level time servers are intended for general SNTP time service needs. Second-level time servers usually enable public access. It is recommended that you use second-level time servers for normal SNTP time server configuration because they are usually located on a closer network that can produce faster updates. It is recommended that you research any time server selection to ensure that it can meet your specific time server requirements. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) maintains a network of time servers that provide time and frequency services for the United States. More information about the NIST may be found at the following Web sites: [Link] ([Link]
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The US Naval Observatory also maintains a network of time servers

available for public access. To see a list of servers and their descriptions, visit the following US Naval Observatory Web site: [Link] /[Link] ([Link] The NTP uses port 123 so this port must be opened on a firewall or router to ensure proper communication with the NTP server. For more information about the use of time services in Windows Server and Windows NT, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 243574 ([Link] ) "Could not locate a time server" after setting SNTP time server using NET TIME command 216734 ([Link] ) How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows 2000
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224799 ([Link]

Basic operation of the Windows Time Service

Time server list

The following list of NTP time servers is provided as a reference only. This list is not intended to be comprehensive. This list describes currently active NTP time servers that may or may not be able to accommodate your time service needs. Any NTP time server selection should be evaluated to determine if the server in question meets your specific time server requirements.

NIST time servers

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[Link] [Link] NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland [Link] [Link] NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland [Link] [Link] (as of December 1, 1999) NIST, Boulder, Colorado [Link] [Link] (as of December 1, 1999) NIST, Boulder, Colorado [Link] [Link] (as of December 1, 1999) NIST, Boulder, Colorado [Link] [Link] University of Colorado, Boulder [Link] [Link] NCAR, Boulder, Colorado [Link] [Link] Microsoft, Redmond, Washington [Link] [Link] Abovnet, North Virginia [Link] [Link] Datum, San Jose, California [Link] [Link] Abovnet, New York City [Link] [Link] Abovnet, San Jose, California

Level-One Time Servers

Arranged by geographic location:

North America
Palo Alto, CA: Systems Research Center, Compaq Computer Corp.

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[Link]: [Link]; CNAME: [Link] Service area: U.S. pacific and mountain time zones Marina del Rey, CA: USC Information Sciences Institute [Link]: [Link] Service Area: CalRen2 and Los Nettos region Washington, DC: U.S. Naval Observatory [Link]: [Link] [Link]: [Link] Service Area: NSFNET Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: National Research Council of Canada [Link] Service Area: Canada Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State University [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Southeastern U.S. Cambridge, MA: MIT Information Systems [Link]: [Link] Service Area: NSFNET and NEARnet area Cambridge, MA: MIT [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Eastern U.S. Palo Alto, CA: Internet Software Consortium [Link]: [Link] Service Area: BARRnet, Alternet-west, and CIX-west Cambridge, MA: Open Software Foundation [Link]: [Link] Service Area: NSFNET and NEARnet region Palo Alto, CA: ViaNet Communications [Link]: [Link] Cleveland, OH: Lewis Research Center (NASA) [Link]: [Link] Service Area: NSFNET and OARNET Colorado Springs, CO: Schriever AFB [Link]: [Link]; CNAME: [Link] [Link]: [Link]; CNAME: [Link] Service area: U.S. pacific and mountain time zones St. Louis, MO: Washington University [Link]: [Link]; CNAME: [Link] Service area: U.S. central time zone Research Triangle Park, NC: MCNC [Link]: [Link] Service area: NC-REN region

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Cupertino, CA: HP [Link]: [Link] Service Area: West coast U.S. Newark, DE: Conectiv Communications [Link]: [Link] Service area: Cable & Wireless Network (formerly MCInet) University Park, PA: Penn State University [Link]: [Link] Service Area: NSFNET, PREPNET, and JvNCnet

Europe
Borowiec, Poland: Astrogeodynamical Observatory, Space Research Centre [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Poland and Europe Stockholm, Sweden: Stupi AB [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Europe Torino, Italy: IEN Galileo Ferraris [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Italy and Europe Zurich, Switzerland: Integrated Systems Lab, Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Switzerland and Europe Torino, Italy: CSTV of National Research Council [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Italy and Europe Erlangen, Germany: University Erlangen-Nuernberg [Link]; [Link]; [Link]; [Link]; [Link]; [Link] Service Area: Germany and Europe Berlin, Germany: Technische Universitaet Berlin [Link]: [Link] [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Germany and Europe Germany [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Germany and Europe Sweden [Link]: [Link] Service Area: SUnet and NORDUnet Sweden

East Asia and Pacific Rim

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Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong. [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Hong Kong, China, and South East Asia Fukuoka, Japan: Fukuoka University [Link]: [Link] [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Japan and Pacific area

Australia
Melbourne Australia: The University of Melbourne [Link]: [Link] Service area: Australia and New Zealand

Level-Two Time Servers

Arranged by geographic location:

North America
NTP time servers: Quebec, Canada: Canadian Meteorological Center [Link]; [Link] Service Area: Eastern Canada Ontario, Canada: National Research Council of Canada [Link]; [Link] Service Area: Canada Saskatchewan, Canada: University of Regina [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Canada Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto [Link]; [Link] Service Area: Eastern Canada Mexico: Audiotel office [Link]; [Link]; [Link] Service Area: Avantel, MCINet, and Mexico Santa Cruz, CA: Scruz-net, inc. [Link]: [Link] Service area: Western U.S. San Diego, CA: UCSD Academic Computing Services/Network Operations [Link]: [Link] Service Area: CERFNET; NSFNET, SDSC region, and nearby Quincy, California [Link]; [Link]

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Service Area: North America Newark, DE: University of Delaware [Link]: [Link] Service Area: CAIRN, Abilene, and vBNS Atlanta, GA: CNSG [Link] Service Area: Southeast U.S. Kennesaw, GA: PeachNet [Link]; [Link] Service Area: PeachNet (Georgia) and Southeast U.S. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois [Link]; [Link]; [Link] Service Area: CICNET, Midwest, and NCSA region Chicago, IL: Argonne National Laboratory [Link]; [Link] Service Area: NSF/ANSNet, CICNet, NetIllinois, and ESNet West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University [Link]; [Link]; [Link] Service area: NSFNET and CICNET area Manhattan, KS: KansasNet OnLine Services [Link]: [Link] [Link]: [Link] Service area: Central U.S. and Great Plains Boston, MA: UMass-Boston CS dept. [Link]: [Link] Service Area: New England Minneapolis/St Paul, MN: University of Minnesota [Link]; [Link] Service Area: CICNET region Columbia, MO: University of Missouri-Columbia [Link]: [Link] Service Area: MOREnet Omaha, NE: Radiks Internet Access [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Midwest U.S. Las Vegas, NV: University of Nevada System Computing Services [Link]: [Link] Service Area: NevadaNet, NSFNET, and SDSC region Las Vegas, NV: UNLV College of Engineering [Link]; [Link] Service Area: Sprintnet New York City, NY: Columbia University

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[Link] Service Area: Sprintlink and NYSERnet Ithaca, NY: Cornell University [Link]: [Link] Service Area: NSFNET and NYSER region New York, NY: Morningside Campus, Columbia University [Link] Service Area: NYSERnet New York City, NY: Columbia University Computer Science Department [Link] Service Area: PSINET; NSFNET, and NYSER region Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Midnet Coos Bay, OR: Koala Computers [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Northwestern U.S. University Park, PA: Penn State University [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Internet2, vBNS, CERFnet(AT&T IP Services), PSC/NCNE, and CASC Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [Link]: [Link] Service area: NSFNET and PSC region Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon Electrical and Computer Engineering [Link]; [Link] Service Area: PREPNET and PSC region Dallas, TX: Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University [Link]: [Link] Service Area: NSFNET and SESQUI region Hughes Springs, TX: First National Bank [Link]: [Link] Service area: Northeast Texas Houston, Tx: Baylor College of Medicine [Link]: [Link] Service Area: NSFNET and SESQUI region College Station, TX: Texas A&M University [Link]: [Link] Service area: NSFNET, SESQUI region, THEnet, and TAMUSDSN Plano, TX: Greyware Automation Products [Link]; [Link] Service Area: South-Central U.S. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Computing Center

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[Link]; [Link] Service Area: Southeast U.S. Arlington, VA: Center for Seismic Studies [Link]: [Link] Service Area: NSFNET and SURA region Richland, WA: Washington State University [Link]: [Link] Service Area: NSFNET and NorthWestNet Washington, U.S.: Mill Creek [Link] Service Area: Northwest U.S. Wisconsin, U.S.: Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison [Link]; [Link]; [Link] Service Area: U.S. and any

South America
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Network Access Point [Link]: CNAME: [Link] [Link]: CNAME: [Link] Service Area: Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina: Sinectis S.A. [Link] Service Area: Argentina Brazil: Brazilian Research Network [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Brazil Venezuela: VELUG, Grupo de Usuarios Linux de Venezuela [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Arica

Europe
Zurich, Switzerland: Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Switzerland and Europe Location: Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe [Link]; [Link] Service area: Denmark, Scandinavia, and Northern Europe Spain: Altea [Link] Service Area: Spain Pieksamaki, Finland: Keski-Savon Oppimiskeskus [Link]; [Link]

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Service area: Finland Meudon, France: Observatoire de Paris-Meudon [Link] Service Area: France and Europe Lyon, France: CISM [Link] Service Area: France, Switzerland, Italy, and Europe Paris, France: VIA, Ecole Centrale [Link]: [Link] Service Area: France and Europe Budapest, Hungary: KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics [Link]: [Link] Service Area: HUNGARNET Italy: Net4u Srl, Vercelli, Italy [Link]: [Link] Service area: Italy Oslo, Norway: University of Oslo [Link]: [Link] Service Area: NORDUnet Oslo, Norway: Alcanet International [Link] Service Area: Europe Krakow, Poland: Academic Computer Centre [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Poland and Europe Lund, Sweden: Lund Institute of Technology [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Sweden and NORDUnet Ljubljana, Slovenia: Institute of Biophysics, University of Ljubljana [Link] [Link] Service Area: Slovenia and Europe Ljubljana, Slovenia: Hydrometeorological Institute of Slovenia [Link] Service Area: Slovenia and Europe Ljubljana, Slovenia: Academic and Research Network of Slovenia [Link]; [Link] Service Area: Slovenia and Europe Ljubljana, Slovenia: J. Stefan Institute [Link] Service Area: Slovenia and Europe

British Isles

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Dublin, Ireland: School of Mathematics, Trinity College [Link]; [Link]; [Link] Service Area: Ireland and U.K. Glasgow, Scotland: Strathclyde University [Link] Service Area: U.K., Europe, and any Cambridge, U.K. [Link]; [Link]; [Link] Service Area: UUNET (formerly known in the U.K. as PIPEX) and U.K. Manchester, England: University of Manchester [Link]; [Link]; [Link]; [Link] Service Area: U.K. Buckinghamshire U.K.: Wibble U.K., Aylesbury [Link] Service area: U.K.

Asia
Moscow, Russia: Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics [Link]: [Link] Service area: Russia Russia: Pushchino (near Moscow) [Link]: [Link] Service area: Russia Chernogolovka, Russia: Chernogolovka Scientific Center (near Moscow) [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Russia

East Asia and Pacific Rim

Tokyo, Japan: Cyber Fleet, Inc. [Link]: [Link] Service Area: Japan and East Asia Seoul, Korea: Inet, Inc. [Link] Service Area: Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and East Asia Hamilton, New Zealand: The University of Waikato [Link]; [Link]; [Link]; [Link] Service Area: New Zealand Singapore and the Philippines: [Link]

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Service Area: Singapore

Africa
Lagos, Nigeria: Supernet300 [Link] Service Area: Western Africa (primarily Nigerian NITEL backbone) Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Natal University [Link]: [Link] Service area: South Africa

Australia
Adelaide, South Australia: The University of Adelaide [Link]: [Link] [Link]: [Link] [Link]: [Link] Service area: AARNet Carlton, Victoria, Australia: eSec Limited [Link]: [Link]

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