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Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN seems to break NTP



Ryan,

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:45:57AM +0000, Ryan B. Lynch wrote:

> If I start an NTP daemon on a machine, and then start an OpenVPN client 
> and establish a connection, the NTP daemon stops being able to get the 
> time from remote servers.  The daemon still runs, but 'ntpq' shows that 
> it isn't communicating with the remote time servers.

[...] 

> For the record, I'm re-routing traffic through the VPN tunnel, so that 
> the NTP traffic should be moving through the VPN.

I doubt that this is an OpenVPN issue. 

Ad hoc, I see the following point:

a) if your NTP servers are somewhere on the internet

As you mentioned all your traffic is running through the tunnel.
You didn't post your config but I assume you are using some private
addresses for your tunnel interfaces. Therefore your NTP traffic
might pass some kind of of gateway which is doing the NAT for your
network. Maybe the NAT configuration is incomplete and/or your have 
to add your OpenVPN clients to your firewall configuration.

b) if your NTP servers are on your own net:

this might be a routing issue if your ntp servers don'ï't know how
to reach your clients and/or your might have a firewall in between
which blocks the UDP packets of ntp between your servers and
clients.


Happy new year,

   Klaus


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