Re: NTP

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On Friday 02 July 2004 5:28 pm, Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN wrote:

> do not i repeat...do not allow inbound ntp with a source port above the
> root ports.

Why not?   What difference does the client's source port make?

Antony.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gavin Hamill
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 4:07 AM
> To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: NTP
>
> On Friday 02 July 2004 11:57, Steve Comfort wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Could someone tell me what rules I need in order to enable NTP?
>
> Simply allow incoming UDP on port 123. The 'normal' way is for both the
> source
> and destination ports to be 123, but it is common (esp. with debugging) for
> the source port to be >1024.
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin.

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