[OpenIndiana-discuss] ntp woes

[James Carlson]

Gary Gendel wrote:
> I could use a bit of advice. My OpenIndiana machine can not update it's
> time from the ntp servers.  I noticed that the time was off by a couple
> of minutes.
> 
> The machine has two nics:
> 
> bge0 - wan
> bge1 - lan
> 
> and serves as a router for my lan.  All the machines on my lan that use
> ntp, make requests and get results happily except this machine:
> 
> $ ntpupdate us.pool.ntp.org
> 26 Apr 12:29:30 ntpdate[13172]: no server suitable for synchronization
> found

At a guess, you have a filter configured that's breaking UDP traffic on
port 123.  Try:

	ntpdate -u us.pool.ntp.org

If that works, then you'll probably want to go looking at your firewall
configuration.

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj at workingcode.com>