Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Bjørge Solli <bjorge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 29 November 2005 00:01, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 28 November 2005 05:48 pm, Bjørge Solli wrote:
> > > Then there must be a problem with the firewall....   I've never had to
> > > open ports for NTP and no routers do either that I am aware of.
> >
> > Well not according to this:
> > <http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/TroubleshootingNTP>
>
> Suture self.....   I can find no reference to port 123 in my router setup
> nor in the shorewall setup I used to run.
>
> Yet ntp is working fine.

I am not trying to explain why it worked with our setup, I just wanted to 
point out why it did not work for me and suggested that could be the problem 
here as well. I do not know enough about your setup to try to explain why you 
managed without opening your router/fw.

-- 
Bjørge Solli
"Computers are like airconditioners, they don't work properly when you open 
windows..."(ukjent)