On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 13:49 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 10:15 -0800, Easthope wrote: > > ntp is installed on a server here and appears to work. > > Yet another machine runs rdate at startup and produces > > this report. > > > > rdate: connect: Connection refused > > > > I have the ntpd man page and it isn't helping. > > Someone please give a hint of what is needed > > in /etc/ntp.conf. > > You are confusing rdate and ntp. > > rdate is port 37 (tcp and udp), typically disabled as a DoS on the > machine running the reference can be had easily. > > ntp runs on port 123 > > rdate (traditionally) does not even speak the protocol of ntp. > > Why would you have rdate vs ntp installed on the one machine? Is it a > commercial UNIX? If not, install ntpdate and ntp. > > BTW, rdate is referenced here: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc868.html > > Where as ntp v3 is here: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1305.html > > and snto is here: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2030.html > > They are related but not interchangeable *UNLESS* you have a time-client > the does both or more. > > Use ntp anyway. You also need to configure your machine that you are referencing to reply to requests. http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/index.html Usually, you need to allow local only clients/networks. Cheers. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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