From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 12 22:44:39 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 845A11AE for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:44:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-wi0-x22b.google.com (mail-wi0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::22b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A3ADF0 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:44:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f171.google.com with SMTP id hn17so2294796wib.4 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:44:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:references:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:cc:x-mailer:from:subject:date :to:x-gm-message-state; bh=Zuj13vEDBC3+jE16L+P1+8prRMwBE7MaqKjWoCfxN2U=; b=JV9ypCbz40L5KCK1g8OQ4SA5AalU8n8av8YeJrUfUVLGu5n4mwPj3uO9aeIhap0oxj J5JKL62CX3VmhtBNKzkaPNHtaVd9A+c8/o1nOgZQ6Wf9iD7vtxBp9Jbx+dlXV7Azlco+ Po8TVc0lz0EJZPB1jMjdrXIZHVHcq4x/Z9R9HNdoa95swbiO40gK6jRDrt4OHou+j6Gd tM71xZPFwZz3waxN5Ad8SKaj55JdN/2uKlgSjFN7EoG5yh9xWalyA1MYdz62Ar5HnBaH gpBzz6QBMnPOJrwBuPEcRYbTZly9URDxzK8gFlTfF/4+usrTbcOL9kzWkOpdlgTsB4mD 2erg== X-Received: by 10.194.109.35 with SMTP id hp3mr30224129wjb.15.1363128278238; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:44:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.14] (did75-17-88-165-130-96.fbx.proxad.net. [88.165.130.96]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o8sm24911205wix.7.2013.03.12.15.44.36 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:44:37 -0700 (PDT) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <76E2EE0D-B6D3-428E-9112-AF0E04E98DDE@my.gd> X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (10B144) From: Damien Fleuriot Subject: Re: ntpd bind() failure: Can't assign requested address Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:44:18 +0100 To: "M. Schulte" X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk99FwkBSQBjk7c+tBQYOwrLzQV0uH9G7EAedqMPXT/x2R9lVgV0St1i4o/wkqQe01myMf8 Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" 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 22:44:39 -0000 On 12 Mar 2013, at 22:42, "M. Schulte" 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.=