[CLUE-Tech] NTP Questions

[Jeremiah Stanley]

> So after some research, it turned out that (1) more-aggressive firewall
> rules (RH 7.2 default) were blocking the ntp protocol and (2) some of
> the ntp servers that I was using have changed their policies so they
> would not respond.  I added the following to /etc/sysconfig/ipchains:
> 
>   #  Add ntp-protocol client support
>   -A output -j ACCEPT  -p udp -d 0/0 ntp
>   -A input  -j ACCEPT  -p udp -s 0/0 ntp
> 
> and then added open-access (stratum 2) clock servers from www.ntp.org to
> /etc/ntp.conf and it seems to be working just fine now.
> 
> Hope someone else finds this info useful...

Could you post your config file for us to take a look at as well?

JStanley
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