[ntp:questions] ntpd not responding on localhost

Maarten Wiltink maarten at kittensandcats.net
Sat Feb 9 17:08:36 UTC 2008


"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote in message
news:47AD1F92.8050103 at comcast.net...
> Nick Bright wrote:

>> ntpq> pe
>>       remote     refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset
>> =================================================================
>>   217.160.254.116 0.0.0.0   16 u    -  128    0    0.000    0.000
>>   75.144.70.35    0.0.0.0   16 u    -  128    0    0.000    0.000
>>   72.232.254.202  0.0.0.0   16 u    -  128    0    0.000    0.000
>>   208.75.88.4     0.0.0.0   16 u    -  128    0    0.000    0.000
[...]
> Assuming that you waited at least 30 minutes before printing that
> ntpq "banner", the servers you have configured are unreachable.

Poll interval is at 128. It's been trying for some time, and already
backing off.


> [...] AFAIK there is no good reason to block port 123.

Your paranoia is slipping. The default state is closed, then if
somebody comes asking you open a port... maybe.

My firewall has a port 123 hole for the secondary server _only_
(which doesn't even use it, incidentally). The other hosts can
get time from the firewall and its slave. I'm certainly not
letting through NTP traffic for them.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink





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