Open (external) port after (default) install?

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

Mark Turner [2004-10-07 23:52 -0700]:
> > Port 123, as a web search would reveal, is the NTP protocol, and this is
> > Ubuntu setting your clock for you.
> 
> Why does it connect to those sites if it is setting time?

To get the current utra-precise time from a server which knows it :-)
(These servers are synchronized from an atomic clock, a so called
Stratum-2 server).

Martin
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