From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 12 21:52:50 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5317CC51 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:52:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m-freebsd@fuglos.org) Received: from m.fuglos.org (m.fuglos.org [217.11.61.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E152A50 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by m.fuglos.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4BA3635C456; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:42:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by m.fuglos.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 441AC35C44F for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:42:51 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:42:51 +0100 (CET) From: "M. Schulte" X-X-Sender: mel@m.fuglos.org To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: ntpd bind() failure: Can't assign requested address Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:52:50 -0000 Hi! [First of all, I have posted this question already on the FreeBSD forum -- so far without replies -- and now my hope is that the set of subscribers here and those of the forum do not completely coincide.] I have installed FreeBSD 9.1 on my server (it's a virtualized qemu/kvm environment, in case that matters) and during boot the following messages appear: ntpd[766]: ntpd 4.2.4p5-a (1) ntpd[767]: bind() fd 23, family AF_INET6, port 123, scope 2, addr fe80::216:36ff:fe74:2076, mcast=0 flags=0x11 fails: Can't assign requested address ntpd[767]: unable to create socket on re0 (3) for fe80::216:36ff:fe74:2076#123 This happens with a GENERIC kernel. I have not touched any IPv6 related configuration after install, so everything should be in the default state. Neither have I changed the ntp/ntpd configuration. Although I could find some threads where people were discussing the same problem, none of the mentioned suggestions fixed this for me. In particular I tried setting ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" in rc.conf -- didn't fix the problem. According to ifconfig, my interfaces, re0 in particular, have IPv6 addresses associated to them. So why would it fail that a process tries to bind to it? Note that I'm rather unexperienced wrt IPv6. Would be great if somebody could give me a hint into the right direction. Anybody else experiencing this? Thank you very much! ~ melanie