[CentOS] (Centos 5.6) Server Time NTP Facility

Wed Aug 31 08:13:24 UTC 2011
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>

Am 31.08.2011 01:58, schrieb Always Learning:

> I also notice our servers successfully contacting official time
> references centres which are not those sites trying to connect to us. I
> notice too the installed time software is listening on every available
> IP. I can not identity any options in any configuration files to
> turn-off this listening.

ntpd shipping with CentOS 6 has an option "-I iface"; see "man 8 ntpd".
Edit "/etc/sysconfig/ntpd" accordingly. ntpd shipping with CentOS 5 does
not have that and thus always binds to all available interfaces.

> Thanks,
> 
> Paul.

Alexander