[lug] ntp woes again

[Ed Hill]

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 22:34, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> I installed the April KRUD edition today.  After putting all my firewall
> configs back in place I still can't get ntpdate to work.  I had this
> problem once before and ntpdate -u fixed it.  Now, even that doesn't work.
>

Hi Michael,

Heres some lines from my /etc/sysconfig/ipchains (RH v7.2) that fixed my
firewall interference problems with ntp:

#eh3  Add ntp protocol support
-A output -j ACCEPT  -p udp -d 0/0 ntp
-A input  -j ACCEPT  -p udp -s 0/0 ntp
#eh3

I'm no ipchains guru, so use them at your risk...  ;-)

Ed


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