[lug] ntpdate fails on RH7.1 (KRUD 2001-08-01 with updates)

[Ferdinand Schmid]

Michael:
Could you have trouble with your firewall?
Also check the syslog, you may also want to increase the logging to be more 
verbose.  I saw this error message before and in my case it was the firewall 
rules.
(It was one of those errors where some folks had posted questions to the 
newsgroups but there was never a good answer.)

Ferdinand

Michael J. Hammel wrote:

> I have ntp 4.0.99k on my gateway box and every time I run ntpdate I get
> this message:
> 
> ntpdate[11708]: no server suitable for synchronization found
> 
> It doesn't matter what servers I specify, I always get that.  I turned off
> the ntp daemon and move /etc/ntp.conf to /etc/ntp.conf-, but neither
> helped.
> 
> On another box I have ntp 4.1.0 running on RH 7.2 (KRUD 2001-12-01).  I can
> set the date with ntpdate on that box just fine.  
> 
> Anyone know what is broken with th 4.0.99k version and if there is a way
> around this?  I haven't run krud2date yet since it isn't installed on the
> gateway box.  I've been updating that box with Red Carpet and the Red Hat
> Network.
> 


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