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Date:      Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:03:57 +0300
From:      "Andy V. Oleynik" <andyo@prime.net.ua>
To:        "David B. Aas" <dave@ciminot.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: error message with xntpd
Message-ID:  <3796DE7C.6CD0F9E5@prime.net.ua>
References:  <000001bed39c$79df7880$0fc8a8c0@dave.ciminot.com>

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Unless I mistake sending broadcast messages by unprivileged
process is prohibited. It also may be filtered by FW.

"David B. Aas" wrote:

> I enabled xntpd on my FreeBSD machine that I am also using as a firewall.
>
> I want clients to be able to synchronize, so I enabled the broadcast option
> in ntp.conf as follows:
>
> broadcast       129.1.1.255
>
> I am getting an error message at the console as follows:
>
> servername xntpd[149]:sendto(129.1.1.255):Permission denied
>
> Does this have something to do with my firewall? I am running ipfw with
> standard rules.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Dave Aas
> dave@ciminot.com
>
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