nptd and firewall

[Markku Kolkka]

Joel Stookey kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 28. 
tammikuuta 2005 07:37):
> I am running a workstation FC1 installation on a dial-up
> connection and want to connect ntpd to a server for a time
> correction.  I think I have it worked out except for how to
> assure that UDP port 123 will open for it

This is only needed if you want to use your machine as a NTP 
server for other machines. You can make NTP queries from your 
machine to NTP servers without changing anything in the default 
firewall configuration.

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 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi