On Wednesday 18 August 2004 06:25, main-request@lists.alug.org.uk wrote:
Re: [ALUG] Problems with NTP I'm having trouble synchronising the time of my network clients using NTP.
I
have a server (helios.perrings) running NTP and listening on UDP 123
Which distribution?
Suse 9.1.
From the documentation, it appears that the src port and dest port should both be 123,
Really? "man ntpd" doesn't mention the port number at all.
When issue man ntpd, the resulting page says that ntpd does not come with man pages - instead look at the documentation that came with it.
From the documentation: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/quick.html
" That's all there is to it, unless some problem in network connectivity or local operating system configuration occurs. The most common problem is some firewall between the workstation and server. System administrators should understand NTP uses UDP port 123 as both the source and destination port and that NTP does not involve any operating system interaction other than to set the system clock. "
I've also just found this from SuSE after re-installing ntp:
"CAVEATS -------
The latest NTPv4 ntpdc does not work with previous versions of ntpd and previous versions of ntpdc do not work with latest ntpd.
This situation is regrettable and may be fixed in future; however, it is necessary in order for the autokey function to retrieve canonical names and certificates from directory services such as Secure DNS."
Stuart.