Your Starlink Dish is a Stratum 1 NTP Server — And Most People Don't Know It
I stumbled across something genuinely useful while setting up a local NTP server for my home network: Starlink quietly added a GPS-based NTP server to every dish, accessible locally at a fixed IP address. It’s been there since mid-2024, it’s officially documented, and almost nobody is using it. Here’s what that means, why it matters, and how I put it to work. What Is NTP and Why Should You Care Network Time Protocol (NTP) is how computers agree on what time it is. This sounds trivial until you realise how many things depend on accurate time — TLS certificate validation, log correlation, authentication tokens, scheduled tasks, database transactions. When clocks drift, things break in subtle and maddening ways. ...