From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 9 14:32:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D9F106566B for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:32:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout08.plus.net (avasout08.plus.net [212.159.14.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AED98FC0A for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:32:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout08 with smtp id 72Y21i003516WCc012Y3wR; Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:32:03 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=LMnkseq9 c=1 sm=1 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=rLpCYgkgFLgA:10 a=9e88RZuw810A:10 a=ZTb9aqGL9YkA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=2cV1Z2UdUV6vHUY-cn0A:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=yiRvL3wMNo5n6otM:21 a=0UgNPm71asK68QY8:21 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1RZ1UX-0000Vq-UV for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:32:02 +0000 From: Mike Clarke Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:32:01 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112091432.01797.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: 9.0RC2 IPV6 warnings from ntpd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:32:06 -0000 After installing 9.0RC2 I'm getting the following warnings at boot time: Dec 9 10:31:09 curlew ntpd[1081]: bind() fd 23, family AF_INET6, port 123, scope 3, addr fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe9e:8897, mcast=0 flags=0x11 fails: Can't assign requested address Dec 9 10:31:09 curlew ntpd[1081]: unable to create socket on nfe0 (3) for fe80: :6ef0:49ff:fe9e:8897#123 I'm puzzled by this because I've only configured the system for IPV4 and yet my network interface has been configured for both: nfe0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=82008 ether 6c:f0:49:9e:88:97 inet 192.168.1.13 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe9e:8897%nfe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 nd6 options=29 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active /etc/rc.conf: hostname="curlew.lan" ifconfig_nfe0="inet 192.168.1.13 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="192.168.1.138" zfs_enable="YES" moused_enable="YES" keymap="uk.iso" ntpd_enable="YES" ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" sshd_enable="YES" inetd_enable="YES" powerd_enable="YES" /etc/ntp.conf contains just a single line: server ntp.plus.net maxpoll 9 The boot messages appear to be just warnings because ntpd is working fine over IPV4 but I feel that I should try to fix this in case it leads to problems later. I certainly don't need IPV6, neither my router nor my ISP provide the facility but I haven't managed to find any way of disabling it. -- Mike Clarke