On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 04:05:03PM +0200, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > You seem to be ignoring the third part of that email. I wasn't, that part missed the point, but since you've sent this to -user 8 times so far I might as well bite and reply. (Please stop!) There's no need for ntpd to listen for incoming connections *at all* if it's acting purely as an ntp *client*. Therefore the LAN topology is irrelevant. -- Jon Dowland