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

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Montag, 21. April 2008 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
> 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?

I suppose ntpdate has a timeout, because it is a one-shot program.  ntpd might 
try forever.  Try fixing the firewall and see if it recovers.