I would say your univeristy people have blocked UDP port 123 for a reason. First, using their internal time server saves network resources. NTP is supposed to work in a hierarchical manner, so if they're providing you good stratum-2 or -1 time locally, you should use that.
Secondly, and this is probably the REAL reason, is that there are many peer-to-peer applications that try to "tunnel out" using standard application ports. I know that some will try to use the DNS port to get around firewalls, so it makes sense that some will try to use the NTP port as well. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
