[nzlug] NTP server

[Daniel Pittman]

Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> writes:
> anru chen wrote:
>
>> any free public NTP server in australia?
>> i have tried some, but all not working.
>
> I find that very unlikely. 

I can assure Anru that is not even remotely true, with my systems
currently using two Australian servers as NTP peers at the moment.

> Time servers use *UTP* port 123. Ensure that you are allowing access
> in *both* directions for this protocol and port.

The easiest way to verify this is to run 'ntpdate -u ip.of.the.host'

That will use an unprivileged UDP port on the local side, to port 123 on
the remote host, and should give immediate feedback.

I strongly suspect PEBCAK here though.

  Daniel
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