Open (external) port after (default) install?

[Mark Turner]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:41:33 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:13:46PM -0700, Darren Critchley wrote:
> 
> > Don't know if you have a firewall in front of Ubuntu that logs
> > connections, but if you do, watch what happens when ubuntu boots up:
> > I have done two installation on two different boxes with two different
> > builds of Ubuntu, and find that on boot, it likes to connect to :
> > 216.154.195.60 on port 123 OR
> > 213.84.180.73 on port 123
> > The first ip address resolves to http://forum.spamcop.net/ and the
> > second one resolves to jansen.cx
> > Why is ubuntu logging into port 123 of these addresses on boot?
> > Now, if we are reporting things to spamcop, fine, but we should be
> > informed, I do not like distros that report things without my knowledge.
> 
> Port 123, as a web search would reveal, is the NTP protocol, and this is
> Ubuntu setting your clock for you.
> 
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Why does it connect to those sites if it is setting time?


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