Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:13:19 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Public Time Synchronization Servers Message-ID: <20030930081319.GH97601@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030930075249.GA13116@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> References: <20030930070650.GC97601@ns2.wananchi.com> <HCELIPBBEBGPLLIOIABMCEIFCDAA.lachlan@fatpanda.net> <20030930074515.GD97601@ns2.wananchi.com> <20030930075249.GA13116@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
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* John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> [20030930 10:53]: wrote:
[snip]
I am happy to be in touch with you!!
> They should. I run the icomtek ones and they don't block anyone... yet. :-)
> South Africa might not be optimum for you though because I guess that most
> African countries don't peer with each other, so everything have to go
> through USA. :-(
>
> > I am still at a loss as to why I get the message.
>
> Maybe there is some kind of firewalling on your side? NTP use udp port 123.
No firewall.
A test against one of your servers, from a FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and from a Redhat
linux box both give same result, viz:
[root@ns1 /root]# ntpdate ntp1.icomtek.csir.co.za
30 Sep 11:07:35 ntpdate[16353]: no server suitable for synchronization found
[root@ns1 /root]# ntpdate -d ntp1.icomtek.csir.co.za
30 Sep 11:07:49 ntpdate[16354]: ntpdate 3-5.93e Fri Apr 6 13:16:26 EDT 2001 (1)
transmit(146.64.24.58)
transmit(146.64.24.58)
transmit(146.64.24.58)
transmit(146.64.24.58)
transmit(146.64.24.58)
server 146.64.24.58, port 123
stratum 0, precision 0, leap 00, trust 000
refid [0.0.0.0], delay 0.00000, dispersion 64.00000
transmitted 4, in filter 4
reference time: 00000000.00000000 Thu, Feb 7 2036 3:28:16.000
originate timestamp: 00000000.00000000 Thu, Feb 7 2036 3:28:16.000
transmit timestamp: c3240cb8.fd805000 Tue, Sep 30 2003 11:07:52.990
filter delay: 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
filter offset: 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
delay 0.00000, dispersion 64.00000
offset 0.000000
30 Sep 11:07:53 ntpdate[16354]: no server suitable for synchronization found
[root@ns1 /root]#
-Wash
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