Checking /etc/services is not enough. You need to check /etc/inetd.conf and
see if the time service is being run or is commented out (has # as first
character in the line).
Older distributions defaulted to running almost every inetd service. As this
was increasingly recognized as a security weakness, most moved to running
only the few services that even beginners would know about, like telnet and
ftp, and commenting the others out (based on the assumption that if you knew
enough about the service to want it, you also knew how to activate it).
If it is commented out in inetd.conf, just uncomment the line, save the
file, and restart inetd.
At 06:08 AM 3/20/99 -0500, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote [abridged]:
>When I enter 'ntpdate -dv 192.168.0.3', I get an error message back
>saying "No server suitable for synchronization found". I can ping the
>other machine, 192.168.0.3 (the Linux box), just fine, so it is not a
>network problem. (At least, I don't know what I don't know that might
>make it a network problem.) ntpdate sends its packets to port 123, and
>my /etc/services shows ntp on that port with both tcp and ucp. So, that
>should work, shouldn't it?
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