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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:55:55 +0100
From:      Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ntpd not adjusting the clock?
Message-ID:  <4536083B.6020805@dial.pipex.com>
In-Reply-To: <4535C0EB.8000700@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <20061018000853.O49453@192.168.11.51>	<F5EF37C8-7955-4246-932E-833A537A4009@mac.com> <4535C0EB.8000700@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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Matthew Seaman wrote:

>That means that anyone can connect to your NTP daemon and poll it for time
>service or use ntpdc to muck around with your configuration.  It's better
>to use at minimum:
>
>    restrict default nopeer nomodify
>    restrict localhost
>  
>
You *can* block that kind of unwanted external access with a firewall, 
though it can get tricky with NAT in the equation.

--Alex







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