On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 18:01 -0500, 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.
How do you test it to make sure it's properly connected? I opened a shell (system has been rebooted between the last time and now) and linux:/home/Mike # /etc/init.d/ntp status Checking for network time protocol daemon (NTPD): running Can I assume that this means everything is working all right? This is today's entry from /var/log/ntp: 28 Nov 00:46:11 ntpd[4865]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 28 Nov 07:19:56 ntpd[4884]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum 10 28 Nov 07:19:56 ntpd[4884]: kernel time sync disabled 0041 28 Nov 07:21:00 ntpd[4884]: kernel time sync enabled 0001 28 Nov 07:22:06 ntpd[4884]: synchronized to 199.212.17.20, stratum 2 28 Nov 11:46:43 ntpd[4884]: time reset -0.303835 s 28 Nov 11:51:03 ntpd[4884]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum 10 28 Nov 11:52:07 ntpd[4884]: synchronized to 199.212.17.20, stratum 2 28 Nov 12:32:51 ntpd[4884]: time reset +0.251123 s 28 Nov 12:37:07 ntpd[4884]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum 10 28 Nov 12:38:13 ntpd[4884]: synchronized to 199.212.17.20, stratum 2 Mike