[ntp:questions] Re: I'm stumped, ntpdate with SuSE 8.2

Hal Murray hmurray at suespammers.org
Wed Dec 31 17:42:52 UTC 2003


>  It appears to me that I'm being blocked somewhere, but the traceroute
>makes me believe that I CAN get to the NTP server.
>The only thing that I can think of, is that my static IP address is NOT
>registered...but I've never had a problem with that before, (just out of
>suspicion that they (NTP service) may be doing some kind of reverse
>lookup), however, when I run the ntpdate command on a NAT'd system in my
>office, things work fine!

Have you run tcpdump on your local LAN?  That should tell you if
the packets are getting dropped externally to your system or
inside your system.

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