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Re: ntpdate troubles



on Wed, Jun 19, 2002, Jerome BENOIT (benoit@eie.gr) wrote:
> Thanks for your answers
> 
> Bill Benedetto wrote:

> >    If you ran ntpdate directly, what machine did you tell
> >    ntpdate to use?  Something inside your building or something
> >    outside your building?
> >
> 
> outside my building

Is your firewall blocking udp packets?  ntp used udp, and won't work if
udp traffic isn't passed.

Typically, pings (icmp) are allowed, which may make diagnosing this
difficult.  tcpdump is your friend.

Peace.

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