NTP, ntpdate, and ISP-based firewall

Thu Mar 4 05:53:25 UTC 2004

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On Wednesday 03 March 2004 2:12 pm, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> On a side note, what kind of fascist, unfriendly ISP blocks NTP
> traffic? Correct timekeeping is essential for a properly run network
> (especially if you have shared filesystems or want to be able to merge
> logfiles).

Many ISPs provide NTP services on their DNS servers. I can't imagine why 
they would block NTP though. Are you sure its not the router?

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Jonathan Gardner
jgardner at jonathangardner.net
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