I think I found it. I had 2 problems. First I needed to use the -b option to
force ntpdate to change my clock more than +- 128ms and second, my ipchains
script is blocking privileged ports (1:1023) and I needed to use the -u
option to force ntpdate to use a non-priv port. The following command seems
to have worked:
/usr/local/bin/ntpdate -bu timex.peachnet.edu
Thanks everyone,
Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Kruger [mailto:">bkruger@mindspring.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 9:31 PM
To: Robert Heaven
Subject: RE: [ale] Time Sync
At 08:19 PM 3/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>OK, what am I doing wrong? At the command line I type:
>
> /usr/local/bin/ntpdate 130.126.24.44
>or
> /usr/local/bin/ntpdate timex.peachnet.edu
>or
> /usr/local/bin/ntpdate tock.usno.navy.mil
>
>All I get back (after a brief pause) is:
>
> 5 Mar 20:04:51 ntpdate[5047]: no server suitable for synchronization
found
Before you do this, try pinging all of these connections to make sure you
can get to them.
If you can ping them but not get a time synch, it means that your ISP is
filtering NTP packets, and its time to have a word with them.
Bob
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