[wplug] ipchains

[Robert Dale]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Rich Rosenbaum wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if ntp is tcp or udp? I configured RH 7.1 to allow
> incoming ntp (ntp:tcp) for ntpdate. No luck there. And as a newbie, the
> man pages for ipchains are little bit overwhelming. If I type ipchains
> -L, I can see ntp listed identically as ftp, ssh, and telnet, but after
> an ifup ppp0, then ntpdate time.apple.com or various other time servers,
> I get "no server suitable .....". Then when I type ipchains -F (flushes
> the current permissions), and do it again - ntpdate works fine. So
> either ntp might be udp, or something else is wrong.....

It uses UDP.

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Robert Dale

wplug member since 1998