[CentOS] chronyd configuration as a local ntp server

Tue Dec 27 19:13:32 UTC 2016
David Both <dboth at millennium-technology.com>

Here are the commands for that. Apparently restrict is replaced with deny.


deny [<subnet>]             Deny access to subnet as a default
deny all [<subnet>]         Deny access to subnet and all children


On 12/27/2016 09:07 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 'Modern' NTP allows for all sorts of updates to NTP servers, with all
> sorts of attacks.  So to prevent even local hosts from making changes
> to your NTP server, there is the restrict instead of allow command.
> Its intent is to limit what the server will accept from a host in the
> address range instead of allowing any command from within that range.
> I use this on my Centos6 servers.
>
> I guess I will have to register to the chronyd list and ask there.
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> On 12/27/2016 08:49 AM, David Both wrote:
>> AFAIK the only thing needed to make your host an NTP server using
>> chrony is to set the allow line to the network address in CIDR format
>> of the network you want to be served, and uncomment it. The restart
>> chronyd. You also need to ensure that port 123 (NTP) is open to your
>> internal network on your filrewall.
>>
>> I have a CentOS 6 box that is an NTP server for my network. CentOS 7
>> works the same way.
>>
>>
>> On 12/27/2016 08:25 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 11:04:22PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>> This is for centos 7 that has chronyd 2.1.1
>>>>
>>>> I am looking into how to use chronyd as my local ntp server.
>>>>
>>>> On my old servers with ntpd I had local access control lines like:
>>>>
>>>> restrict 192.168.128.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But in looking for documentation on chronyd I did not find anything
>>>> on this at:
>>>>
>>>> https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/doc/2.1/manual.html
>>>>
>>>> In the actual /etc/chronyd.conf there is the sample line:
>>>>
>>>> # Allow NTP client access from local network.
>>>> #allow 192.168/16
>>>>
>>>> Does this allow only allow queries?  Does chronyd support the
>>>> 'restrict' option?
>>> Robert:
>>>
>>> Years back I used to use Chrony for that  purpose (when I was running
>>> Smoothwall on an old PC instead of a commercial router, as I am now)
>>> and it did the job remarkably well.
>>>
>>> One of the designgoals of Chrony was to support networks or computers
>>> that are NOT connected full-time, so that time stayed somewhere near
>>> correct even if offline for hours or days.
>>>
>>> But that having been so long ago, now, I don't remember the details.
>>>
>>> I also don't remember what the "restrict" directive for ntpd does.
>>>
>>> (to give you an idea of how long ago that was it was when I had a
>>> Red Hat
>>> 7.2 or 7.3 workstation as my home PC--pre-RHEL. I could compile
>>> things on
>>> that RH box, tar up the necessary results and take that file to the
>>> smoothwall box and untar them and with small configuration: voila!)
>>>
>>> there used to be a chrony mailing list where one could ask such
>>> questions,
>>> but I haven't seen traffic on it in years, so it may no longer exist.
>>>
>>> Fred
>>
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