From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 20 15:31:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077C9119E3 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 15:29:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990220233100.SVVV3226200.mta2-rme@wocker>; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 12:31:00 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Khetan Gajjar Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 12:29:50 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: xntpd server for MS-Win clients? Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: References: <19990220194922.SBRR3226200.mta2-rme@wocker> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990220233100.SVVV3226200.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please keep all responses on the mailing list. That way, mistakes can be caught by those that know better. On 21 Feb 99, at 1:19, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Dan Langille wrote: > > DL> Time server: the name of my FreeBSD box which runs xntpd > DL> SNTP is selected. > DL> > DL> One other thought: is the freebsd box allowing the time protocol both in > DL> /etc/services and in your firewall (if any)? Check for port 37 both udp > DL> and tcp. > > xntpd itself doesn't server/respond to any NTP queries, does it ? > You have to edit /etc/inetd.conf and enable time, correct ? Yes, xntpd does respond to NTP queries. No, you don't have to modify /etc/inetd.conf. In fact, time is commented on on my /etc/inetd.conf and my local hosts can use my freebsd as a time server. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message