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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:44:18 +0100
From:      Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>
To:        "M. Schulte" <m-freebsd@fuglos.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ntpd bind() failure: Can't assign requested address
Message-ID:  <76E2EE0D-B6D3-428E-9112-AF0E04E98DDE@my.gd>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303122241080.77297@m.fuglos.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303122241080.77297@m.fuglos.org>

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On 12 Mar 2013, at 22:42, "M. Schulte" <m-freebsd@fuglos.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>=20
> [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.]
>=20
> 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:
>=20
>   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=3D0 flags=3D0x11 fails: Can't assign requested add=
ress
>   ntpd[767]: unable to create socket on re0 (3) for fe80::216:36ff:fe74:20=
76#123
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Although I could find some threads where people were discussing the
> same problem, none of the mentioned suggestions fixed this for me.
>=20
> In particular I tried setting
>=20
>   ipv6_activate_all_interfaces=3D"YES"
>=20
> in rc.conf -- didn't fix the problem.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Would be great if somebody could give me a hint into the right
> direction. Anybody else experiencing this? Thank you very much!
>=20
> ~ melanie
>=20

I'll check tomorrow if we have the same issue at work, although it doesn't l=
ook familiar.

We've got a 9.1 with a custom kernel (although nothing related to ipv6 chang=
ed) running in KVM.=



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