Re: [ntp:questions] Problem syncing NTP behind NAT

2012-04-07 Thread Ken Link
I did some more testing with a total of four different machines behind the NAT. Two of them synced in a few seconds, the other two were stuck in INIT. For the machines that didn't sync, the external server did not respond at all. Here are the detailed packet captures of each session, as seen from

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem syncing NTP behind NAT

2012-04-07 Thread Dave Hart
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 16:53, Ken Link kl...@numberzero.org wrote: I did some more testing with a total of four different machines behind the NAT. Two of them synced in a few seconds, the other two were stuck in INIT. For the machines that didn't sync, the external server did not respond at

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem syncing NTP behind NAT

2012-04-07 Thread Dave Hart
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 21:36, Dave Hart h...@ntp.org wrote: I notice the successful clients were querying using ports 123, and the failing ones 123.  I dimly recall seeing an inappropriate less-than-123 source port comparison in ntpd long ago, in fact I'd have guessed it had been removed

[ntp:questions] Problem syncing NTP behind NAT

2012-04-05 Thread Ken Link
Hello, I'm trying to sync two NTP clients behind the same NAT to an Internet NTP server. Both machines behind the NAT have the same NTP configuration file and are running v4.2.6p4 on Windows XP. The NTP server outside the NAT is running v4.2.6p3 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The problem I'm having is that

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem syncing NTP behind NAT

2012-04-05 Thread Dave Hart
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 02:38, Ken Link kl...@numberzero.org wrote: Now I stop NTP on machine A and start NTP on machine B. The client request goes out the NAT, and I see the request coming into the external server with tcpdump. But, NTP on the external server doesn't respond. In fact, the