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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!mr.net!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!arclight.uoregon.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!nwnet.net!not-for-mail From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony Talltree) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: xntp/ntpdate woes Date: 21 Jan 1997 10:53:50 -0800 Organization: NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, USA, Earth Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5c33bu$6ug@lovecraft.nwnet.net> References: <32E48414.337@postmodern.com> Reply-To: aad@nwnet.net NNTP-Posting-Host: lovecraft.nwnet.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5661 >So, I gave up on xntp and decided to try ntpdate -- I put this line >in /etc/rc.local: >/usr/sbin/ntpdate -bs ntp3-sf.tlg.net ntp1-sf.tlg.net ntp2-sf.tlg.net >and also invoke ntpdate via cron every hour. All I get, though, is the >error message >ntpdate: no server suitable for synchronization Run it with -d to see if the response packets are making it to you. Might you be firewalling them out?