Re: Mystry of ntpdate

From: Raymond Chui (raymond.chui_at_noaa.gov)
Date: 01/20/04


Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:35:40 -0500
To: Walt Howard <howard@icoremail.ece.ualberta.ca>

Walt Howard wrote:

>In article <buju76$fmr$1@news.nems.noaa.gov> you write:
>
>
>>I have two Redhat Linux 7.2 sit next to each other.
>>When I issued the command by root
>>
>>/usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp2.usno.navy.mil
>>
>>One machine I got
>>
>>20 Jan 13:54:01 ntpdate[19985]: step time server 192.5.41.209 offset
>>0.992795 sec
>>
>>That's great!! But other machine I got
>>
>>20 Jan 13:48:36 ntpdate[23867]: no server suitable for synchronization found
>>
>>Why is that? If you know the answer, please let me know.
>>
>>
>
>Typically it is because a firewall (ipchains on the affected PC?) is
>blocking udp packets on port 123.
>
>
>
Thank Q very much. You are right, I found ipchains is running. So I
turned it off. Everything is running fine, now.
:-D



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