Add a restrict line for your local network? restrict 172.31.13.0 mask 255.255.255.0 Disable (or correctly set up) authentication? authenticate no Without authentication, comment out the keys line? #keys /etc/ntp/keys On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 15:01, Ronald W. Heiby wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello psyche-list, > > I'm having trouble with RH 8.0 that I was not having with 7.2 or 7.3. > But, to be fair, I had not tried to do anything quite this weird. > I cannot seem to get my RH 8.0 clients to get time syncronization > information from my RH 8.0 servers. > > The problem may be a simple matter of the fact that my network is > currently not attached to the Internet, so is (technically) > unsynchronized. However, for the time being, I'm willing to live with > the fact that we might not be set to the right time, as long as all > the systems agree on that wrong time. So, I've attempted to set up > everyone to look to my notebook computer (falkor) as the source of > time information for my work network. Since the notebook attaches to > the Internet at home each night, its idea of the correct time is > fairly close. When falkor is booted into Win2K, the other systems can > get the time from it, running NetTime. However, when it is booted into > RH 8.0, they claim to be unable to get the time from it running ntpd. > > I have double checked firewall settings and am accepting TCP and UDP > port 123 on all RH 8.0 systems. My dev2 /etc/sysconfig/iptables > contains the following lines. Similar lines appear in the iptables for > the other systems involved. > > -A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 123 -j ACCEPT > -A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 123 -j ACCEPT > > The attached ntp.conf is from machine "dev2". The config files from > 192.168.254.1 and 192.168.254.100 are similar, though .100 (falkor) > has server lines for real Internet time servers for when it is at home > and on the net. > > The attached ntpd.1 file is the output generated on dev2 by the > command, "ntpd -d -d -a" while falkor was booted into Win2K and > running NetTime. The attached ntpd.2 file is the same thing while > falkor was booted into RH 8.0 and running ntpd. Note the "packet: bad > header 020" lines. One appears in each file for the 192.168.254.1 > exchange, but for 192.168.254.100 (falkor) only when falkor is booted > into RH 8.0 (file ntpd.2). > > The attached ntp.ethereal file is the ethereal data file showing the > exchange of ntp packets between dev2 and falkor (from dev2's point of > view) while both were running RH 8.0. > > While falkor is at home, I want it to believe the outside servers on > the Internet and set its clock to them. When falkor is at the office, > I want it to believe its own time and I want the other systems to > believe falkor's version of the time. When falkor is not in the > office, I want 192.168.254.1 to be filling in, providing the time to > the rest of the network, while continuing to look for falkor for the > "more better" time. How can I accomplish this? Thanks! > > Ron. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 > Comment: Until recently, the last PGP with full source disclosure. > > iQA/AwUBPfo8nW8pw+2/9pUJEQJiTwCg0szemUOSpf9GehMa/E6jPQSr0zwAoOfy > 1LhXCSy+1/00N2XgyaMocU91 > =x9iP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Chris Kloiber -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list