[hobbit] NTP

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Sun Nov 12 17:54:05 CET 2006


On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 10:50:01AM -0600, Dan Vande More wrote:
> 26628 in this case is the pid. ntp always has an destination port of 123 so
> you can write your iptables rule with that.

Two other things to remember:

1) ntp uses UDP, not tcp. So your iptables rule should be something like
    iptables -A INPUT -p udp --destination-port 123 -s ip.of.hobbit.server -j ACCEPT

2) The ntp.conf on the host you want to check must be setup to allow
   queries by the Hobbit server.


Regards,
Henrik




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