unblocking ntp on rh9

I want to set my workstation clock
to Internet time.

There is clock.redhat.com and clock2.redhat.com,
the 2nd is pingable from my machine; however
when I try to configure it, an alert says, NTP
may be blocked.

I looked at the security settings and they
were set to medium. I set the firewall to NONE
and tried it again, but the clock still said
that NTP is blocked.

How can I get NTP access for my workstation?


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On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 02:28:51 +0000, jbailo wrote:

>
> I want to set my workstation clock
> to Internet time.
>
> There is clock.redhat.com and clock2.redhat.com,
> the 2nd is pingable from my machine; however
> when I try to configure it, an alert says, NTP
> may be blocked.
>
> I looked at the security settings and they
> were set to medium. I set the firewall to NONE
> and tried it again, but the clock still said
> that NTP is blocked.
>
> How can I get NTP access for my workstation?
try to using telnet connect to time server with port of ntp and check the
connection failure reason. Good luck

"jbailo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> I want to set my workstation clock
> to Internet time.
>
> There is clock.redhat.com and clock2.redhat.com,
> the 2nd is pingable from my machine; however
> when I try to configure it, an alert says, NTP
> may be blocked.
>
> I looked at the security settings and they
> were set to medium. I set the firewall to NONE
> and tried it again, but the clock still said
> that NTP is blocked.
>
> How can I get NTP access for my workstation?
>

To run NTP, you need to enable UDP port 123 both in and out. Check your
firewall script.

Please check if your ISP has a NTP server - the time picked from redhat.com
is usually taken from pretty far away. The ISP servers are usually
ntp.theispdomain, ntp1.theispdomain etc.

With a quick search, I found ntp1.earthlink.net and ntp2.earthlink.net,
which might be the proper ones for you.

HTH

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi