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From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony Talltree)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: xntp/ntpdate woes
Date: 21 Jan 1997 10:53:50 -0800
Organization: NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, USA, Earth
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>So, I gave up on xntp and decided to try ntpdate -- I put this line
>in /etc/rc.local:

>/usr/sbin/ntpdate -bs ntp3-sf.tlg.net ntp1-sf.tlg.net ntp2-sf.tlg.net

>and also invoke ntpdate via cron every hour.  All I get, though, is the
>error message

>ntpdate: no server suitable for synchronization 

Run it with -d to see if the response packets are making it to you.
Might you be firewalling them out?