ntp server: mulitiple interfaces

Bill Campbell bill
Mon May 17 11:45:21 PDT 2004


On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:57:29AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
>I have xntp set up on a gateway box and it synchronizes well with some
>network time servers. I want to use this box to synchronize my home network.
>
>I can't get my other boxes to see the time server daemon on the gateway
>box. This could  be explained if the daemon (xntp) was only listening
>to one of the two NIC's in the gateway. Using nmap, I don't see any open
>port 123, so, this is possible, I suppose. I have not found any
>configuration item which tells the daemon which NIC to listen to.

What does ``lsof -n -i | grep ntp'' show?  I see xntpd listening on all
interfaces on one of our dual homed servers.

Bill
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