Ntp uses its own protocol on top of UDP. Each ntp packet includes source and destination addresses of the communication. The ntpd server uses this data and checks if a answer came from the same host the request was sent to. If this is not the case, it assumes something is wrong.
In your setup clients connect to one ip(of the alias) and you send the reply via your main interface. These ip's then don't match. I don't think it is possible to use alias interfaces with ntpd. If you do get it running somehow please let me know. > I have been attempting, without success, to get ntpd listening on an alias > interface on one of my general purpose boxes. It seems that ntpd prefers to > listen on localhost:ntp and eth0addr:ntp. It opens a socket for *:ntp as > well, but does not respond to queries on other addresses. Here is some LSOF > output demonstrating this..: > > # lsof -p 16667 |grep UDP > ntpd 16667 root 4u IPv4 4493134 UDP *:ntp > ntpd 16667 root 5u IPv4 4493135 UDP localhost:ntp > ntpd 16667 root 6u IPv4 4493136 UDP hostname:ntp > > I checked the archives, and it seems another poster had similar trouble in > Dec'02, but there were no apparent follow-up posts. Google has also been > less than revealing on this topic. All suggestions entertained. > > -- > Jeff > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marius
