[ntp:questions] Use ntpd as a daemon so that it continuously disciplines clock, no listen port

David Woolley david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid
Sat Jan 15 09:25:38 UTC 2011


Steve Kostecke wrote:
> On 2011-01-14, Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Do you have VPN access through the firewall. The other thing is to
>> make an SSH "tunnel" and forward port 123 data via SSH.
> 
> Forwarding NTP packets over a VPN or through SSH is a good way to
> increase latency and jitter.

SSH would be particularly bad; NTP is UDP for a reason.




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