[hobbit] NTP

[Dan Vande More]

26628 in this case is the pid. ntp always has an destination port of 123 so
you can write your iptables rule with that.

On 11/12/06, Kevin <khanrahan at charter.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the feedback Rob. I tried what you said and it doesn't
> matter. This is being run from the main Hobbit server. The problem seems
> to be with iptables on the client. When I shut off iptables on the
> client it works just fine so the query from the hobbit server to the
> client is being blocked. This is what the server says:
>
> server 10.164.138.60, stratum 0, offset 0.000000, delay 0.00000
> 12 Nov 11:31:32 ntpdate[26628]: no server suitable for synchronization
> found
>
>
> It looks like it is trying to use port 26628.
>
>
> Got any ideas how I specify the port to use (and exactly where that is
> specified in Hobbit) so I can allow for it in the client iptables config?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> kevin
>
>
>
>
>
> Rob MacGregor wrote:
> > On 11/12/06, Kevin <khanrahan at charter.net> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>   Can someone tell me how to get the NTP test to work? I get an error
> >> when I try it saying something like " a suitable time server could not
> >> be found". I get the impression that I need to specify MY time server
> in
> >> some config file somewhere but I cannot find where that is. Any help
> >> appreciated.
> >
> > A quick eyeball of the output suggests it uses:
> >
> > ntpdate -u -q -p 2 HOST_IP 2>&1
> >
> > Try su-ing to the user you run hobbit as and try the command.
> >
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