Thanks. Opening up the port was exactly what I needed. Odd that query doesn't require the port, but actually setting the time does.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:17:11PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:58:21AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I installed ntpdate and can get the time when I query, but any time I > > try to set the time I get the error > > 20 Apr 10:45:07 ntpdate[13883]: no server suitable for synchronization > > found > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions how to get this to work? Possibly > > relevant facts: Debian woody, 2.4.2 kernel, iptables firewalling, my > > system clock is set to local time (I dual boot with other OSs), and > > I'm pretty sure my startup and shutdown routines sync with the > > hardware clock. I was running as root, using a dialup connection. > > if your firewalling you need to open udp port 123 to incoming > connections. even for ntpdate in my experience. > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
