Public Time Synchronization Servers

[Odhiambo Washington]

* John Hay <jhay at 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 at ns1 /root]# ntpdate ntp1.icomtek.csir.co.za
30 Sep 11:07:35 ntpdate[16353]: no server suitable for synchronization found

[root at 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 at ns1 /root]#




-Wash

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