Redhat NTPD Clock

[John Wirt]

Bob McClure Jr wrote:

>On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:26:57PM -0400, John Wirt wrote:
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>>Hmm..can you  tell me how to set the security level?
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>>Thank you, Rick.
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>>John Wirt
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>Try "firewall-config".
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When I enter "firewall-config" as a command, the response is "command 
not found"

When I enter "iptables -h" as a command. the response is "command not found"

What should I do?

John Wirt

>>Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 00:58 -0400, John Wirt wrote:
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>>>>Thanks you several of you, I have RedHat booting to completion just fine 
>>>>except for one problem.
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>>>>Near the end of the boot sequence, RedHat apparently tries to connect to 
>>>>some time standard at 66.187.224.4. The sequence is:
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>>>>ntpd: Opening firewall for input from 66.187.224.4 port 123
>>>>ntpd: Opening firewall for input from clock.redhat.com port 123
>>>>iptables v 1.2.8: host/network clock.redhat.com not found [FAILED]
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>>>>   use iptables -h for assistance.
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>>>>However, iptables -h doesn't provide any help.
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>>>>What is the problem? How can I fix it?
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>>>You must have the firewall open ports for TCP and UDP port 53 (DNS).
>>>What's probably happening is that the system is trying to resolve
>>>clock.redhat.com (66.187.224.4 and 66.187.233.4) and can't because the
>>>firewall is blocking DNS issues.  This happens if you used the "maximum"
>>>setting on system-config-securitylevel as that blocks EVERYTHING
>>>(including DNS).  Use the "medium" security setting.
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>>>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
>>>- VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
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>>>-        Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.        -
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>Cheers,
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