Public Time Synchronization Servers

[Odhiambo Washington]

* John Hay <jhay at icomtek.csir.co.za> [20030930 10:53]: wrote:

[snip]

> > It sure did, but still seems I am stuck. I have extracted the Stratum-2
> > servers from this site and run a test against them, no luck still. The
> > error msg I get is the same:
> > 
> > 
> > root@ /home/wash]
> >  2# cat FILE2 
> > ntp1.icomtek.csir.co.za
> > tock.nml.csir.co.za
> > ntp.is.co.za
> > igubu.saix.net
> > ntp1.webonline.co.za
> > ntp-ndf.mweb.co.za
> > ntp-nld.mweb.co.za
> > 
> > 1# for server in `cat FILE2`; do ntpdate $server; done
> > 30 Sep 10:42:58 ntpdate[55266]: no server suitable for synchronization found
> > 30 Sep 10:43:02 ntpdate[55267]: no server suitable for synchronization found
> > 30 Sep 10:43:06 ntpdate[55268]: no server suitable for synchronization found
> > 30 Sep 10:43:10 ntpdate[55269]: no server suitable for synchronization found
> > 30 Sep 10:43:17 ntpdate[55272]: no server suitable for synchronization found
> > 30 Sep 10:43:24 ntpdate[55273]: no server suitable for synchronization found
> > 30 Sep 10:43:30 ntpdate[55274]: no server suitable for synchronization found
> > 
> > 
> > Is there something that I could be ignoring (since this is my 1st go at
> > setting up a Time Server) that is blatantly obvious? For one I know (connectionwsie)
> > that SA may not be the closest to me, but surely their Time Servers should
> > serve me well ;)
> 
> 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 firewalls here ;)


-Wash

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