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Article #182Re: XNTP using Port 123 only... how can i change this?
From: Dean Thompson
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 14:56
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 14:56
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Hi!, >> According to the xntpd/ntpd daemon that I have installed on my system, it >> doesn't provide a command line option for changing the port and that is >> probably because ntp clients/servers should operate on port 123. My >> advice to you, would be to examine your SUSE firewall and get it to open >> up port 123 so that you can use the correct port for the ntpd services. > > if so... i will bedder try to do a "ntpdate -u server" by a cronjob... but > if ntpdate is able to workaround this problem... why is the xntp damon > unable to workaround? No idea, but if you are completely desparate, you could always break into the code and change the port number yourself and so a recompile. However, it is normally a good idea in most cases to keep to the standardised port numbers. See ya Dean Thompson -- +____________________________+____________________________________________+ | Dean Thompson | E-mail - Dean.Thompson@csse.monash.edu.au | | Bach. Computing (Hons) | ICQ - 45191180 | | PhD Student | Office - <Off-Campus> | | School Comp.Sci & Soft.Eng | Phone - +61 3 9903 2787 (Gen. Office) | | MONASH (Caulfield Campus) | Fax - +61 3 9903 1077 | | Melbourne, Australia | | +----------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
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