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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