[ntp:questions] Re: Question on abusive clients.
John Pettitt
jpp at cloudview.com
Fri Dec 23 23:55:51 UTC 2005
Hal Murray wrote:
>>ntpdate uses a random port by default. However standard ntp servers only
>>send and receive NTP packets on port 123.
>
>
> Is that right? I thought ntpdate used 123 by default so it gets an error
> message if ntpd is running rather than trashing the clock out from under
> ntpd.
>
> The html doc says -u and -d use an unprivileged port, but I don't
> see any place where it says which port it uses if you don't specify
> -u or -d.
>
It uses 123 unless one of the flags (-q -u or -d as I recall) make it change.
John
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