NTP is not working

KraziKid · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 128

I am trying to synchronize my clock on both my computers (Windows XP, and gentoo) to time.nist.gov and time.windows.com and neither are able to receive data. I get an error in Windows, and a message saying "no server suitable for synchronizaton found". I am using the latest version of the ntp package. The command I am using under gentoo is:

guero61 · l33t Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 811 Location: Behind you

Are you firewalled? That would be my first guess, especially since it's happening in both OS's. One thing you might want to do is sync one and sync the other machine to it -- keep as much load as possible off of the public servers.

KraziKid · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 128

I ahve already tried disabling the firewall on my gentoo machine (it acts as my router as well). Even when my firewall is disabled, and the default policy's are all set to ACCEPT, I still cannot sync to any (I have tried about 15 now) time servers.

Jimbow · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 5:24 am Post subject:

I'm behind a firewall with just a couple of ports open and I can NTP without any problem. When you are synching to an NTP server you are acting as the client (like a web browser) so a firewall will normally not stop you. Firewalls are usually designed to prevent outsiders from creating conections to the inside, they usually don't prevent insiders from connecting to the outside.

BTW: Don't try synching to any primary server, you should always synch to a secondary server (unless you are going to become a public secondary server yourself).
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Slyer · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 9:34 pm Post subject: NTP

...and put more than one server name in your ntp.conf file. Since I put 3 names, I'm OK...