Major Clock Drift

miah jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com
Thu Aug 26 17:41:01 EDT 2004


I don't know how 'to' was typed as 'out' but it happend.  As I was
talking about firewall rules, I wanted to make sure to clean that up
=)

-miah

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:38:08PM -0400, miah wrote:
> uhoh top post.
> 
> Not to mention, you could add a firewall rule via iptables or ipchains
> to block incoming connections out port 123.
> 
> -miah
> 
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:53:54PM -0400, Richard Chonak wrote:
> > Josh Pollak wrote:
> > I think ntp.conf can include directives to make the server daemon (ntpd) 
> > ignore requests from other machines, so it is possible to run it and be 
> > confident about its safety.
> > 
> > For your purposes, though, it's probably easier to just run ntpdate in a 
> > cron job once an hour or a few times/day.  That'll keep your machine's time 
> > consistent enough for practical use.
> > 
> > --RC
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