Gui for configuring NTP

[Nathaniel Hall]

Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 19:12, jdow wrote:
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>>From: "Paul Smith" <phhs80 at gmail.com>
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>>>>>Is your iptables open for NTP?
>>>>>I have this:
>>>>>-A INPUT -s 66.187.233.4 -p udp -m udp --sport 123 --dport 123 -j ACCEPT
>>>>>-A INPUT -s 66.187.224.4 -p udp -m udp --sport 123 --dport 123 -j ACCEPT
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>>NOTE: that is only good if you have "clock1.redhat.com" as your clock
>>server. Make it correct for the clock server you select. You may have to
>>make it a range of addresses.
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>Why would you need to open these ports to have your system update it's
>time using NTP?  My systems seem to get NTP updates just fine sitting
>behind a firewall that does not have these ports opened.
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Then it isn't a firewall.  Well, I guess it could be, but it is a very
poor firewall.  I'll almost guarantee that the ports are open, you just
don't know it.
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