ntpd error

Vivek J. Patankar list307 at gmail.com
Sat May 26 18:00:56 UTC 2007


Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
> El Domingo, 20 de Mayo de 2007 03:01, Lux Zhang escribió:
>> Hi
>> I tried to used ntpd to sync time, but always got a failure error:
>>
>> [root at home]# /sbin/service ntpd restart
>> Shutting down ntpd:                                        [  OK  ]
>> ntpd: Synchronizing with time server:                      [FAILED]
>> Starting ntpd:                                             [  OK  ]
>>
>> how to fix this?
> 
> Some kind of firewall blocking that connection?
> 

Keep in mind that you need to open port 123 TCP & UDP for it to work. I 
was having problems with time synchronization in servers in a DMZ and 
opening just 123 TCP didn't work.

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