[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#461419: closed by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e at gmx.net> (Re: Bug#461419: ntpd stopped working)

Mon Apr 21 15:56:29 UTC 2008

On 2008-04-21 14:39:11 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> So it appears there is no ntp bug here. If the firewall eats the
> packages, there is nothing that ntpd can do about it. With the
> connection-less nature of UDP, it just doesn't know.

ntpdate detects the problem. So, why couldn't ntpd detect it in the
same way?

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