"Vivek J. Patankar" <list307@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > /etc/services lists both port 123, TCP & UDP as the port for NTP. ... > Seems like that information in /etc/services is misleading. What can > be done to get it corrected? Bugzilla against the 'setup' package > perhaps? /etc/services lists the IANA allocations. 123/tcp is reserved for NTP, but that doesn't mean that any NTP implementation is forced to listen on that port. (In fact, the official NTP's from Udel have never used the TCP port.) As an aside, I tend to use "netstat -an" to see what ports programs are listening on. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ Hints for IPv6 on FC6 http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/fedora/ipv6-tunnel.html
