ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3 - found the problem!

Ian Moore imoore at picknowl.com.au
Fri Jan 21 15:47:15 PST 2005


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 02:32, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Ian Moore <imoore at picknowl.com.au> writes:
> > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:54, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > > Ian Moore <imoore at picknowl.com.au> writes:
> > > > I've just realised I'm not running a name server at all on my 5.3
> > > > system. I have 4.9 installed on this computer too & I'd set up the
> > > > caching server on it, I guess I forgot that step when I installed
> > > > 5.3.
> > > > I'll set it up & see that makes any difference.
> > >
> > > Make sure to switch to using domain names that aren't in use by other
> > > people...
> > >
> > > [A common convention is to use ".lan" or ".local" as the top-level
> > > domain if you are using non-public domain names.]
> >
> > Thanks, I hadn't thought of using a non-existant top level domain. I've
> > changed the hostname to daemon.foo.lan and now localhost.foo.lan resolves
> > to 127.0.0.1 as it should.
> > Unfortunately, I still get the same response form ntpq:
> > daemon:~ % sudo ntpq -p
> > ntpq: write to localhost.foo.lan failed: Permission denied
> > Even with my firewall disabled I get this response.
>
> What about "ntpq -pn"?

No, I get the same response from that too.

Cheers,
-- 
Ian

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