NTP Time Source

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live Streaming
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I have a technical question, that I am hoping someone may be able to answer… I block everything on my firewall for both incoming and outgoing connections, and only allow out what I specify. To that end, I don’t allow my WDTV Live to access any site for any reason, except for support.wdc.com for firmware updates. I have set up on my server a NTP time service, with all my clients pointing to that for their time. I am using DCHP option 4 to specify this server as the time source. Does the WDTV use this option to get the right time server, or will it always try to go to pool.ntp.org.? Oh, BTW, I have over 20+ years as an IT contractor, so I know what I am doing. :slight_smile: Thanks.

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Well, you should be able to determine this for yourself.

If WDTV is going to pool.ntp.org it will be blocked by your firewall unless you allow that. Look in the logs.

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root-node wrote:
will it always try to go to pool.ntp.org.? Oh, BTW, I have over 20+ years as an IT contractor, so I know what I am doing. :slight_smile: Thanks.

It will always use that.  It’s hard-coded into one of the bootup scipts.

But, you can do a little trick.

If you’re really “into it,” you could run your own DNS server with a local zone that resolves pool.ntp.org to your own server.  :)

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TonyPh12345 wrote:

If you’re really “into it,” you could run your own DNS server with a local zone that resolves pool.ntp.org to your own server.  :)

Thanks, I’ll do this.!  :)