Re: problem with ntpd

David Lord wrote:
It does act as a server by default.

Try 'sockstat -4l'
Is your system up and have permanent internet connection? Are you using NAT and/or firewall of incoming connections?

My machine is permanently on, and directly connected.
I haven't bothered with firewall because i have thought
that i don't have any unnecessary software listening to the internet.

now it seems that i have ntpd listening, and possibly something
else too (i have relied to netstat LISTEN before, not knowing
it doesn't list software listening to the udp ports).

sockstat shows for example:

root syslogd 319 6 udp4 *:514 *:*

should i firewall this? are evil hackers now able to write
something bad to my log files now? :)

-santtu
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