From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 17:15:36 2010 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 A7F741065673 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:15:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6500D8FC16 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsd.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.59] helo=ncs.bris.ac.uk) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OOwD9-0003ij-7B; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:15:35 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncs.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1OOwD8-0006dH-Ud; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:15:35 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5GHFYsi056684; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:15:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o5GHFYxR056683; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:15:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:15:32 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <20100616171531.GA56202@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20100616165909.GA55995@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <4C190513.20309@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C190513.20309@infracaninophile.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Anton Shterenlikht , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable 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: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:15:36 -0000 On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:08:35PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 16/06/2010 17:59:10, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > After a recent upgrade to r209156 I get this error: > > > > $ ntpq -p > > ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable > > > > Please advise > > What does 'ifconfig -a' and 'netstat -rn' say? $ ifconfig -a em0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=209b ether 00:13:21:5b:05:1c inet 137.222.187.28 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 137.222.187.255 inet6 fe80::213:21ff:fe5b:51c%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 nd6 options=29 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT ) status: active em1: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=209b ether 00:13:21:5b:05:1d media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 nd6 options=21 $ netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default 137.222.187.250 UGS 0 65512 em0 127.0.0.1 link#3 UH 0 293 lo0 137.222.187.0/24 link#1 U 0 10861 em0 137.222.187.28 link#1 UHS 0 0 lo0 Internet6: Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire ::/96 ::1 UGRS lo0 ::1 ::1 UH lo0 ::ffff:0.0.0.0/96 ::1 UGRS lo0 fe80::/10 ::1 UGRS lo0 fe80::%em0/64 link#1 U em0 fe80::213:21ff:fe5b:51c%em0 link#1 UHS lo0 fe80::%lo0/64 link#3 U lo0 fe80::1%lo0 link#3 UHS lo0 ff01:1::/32 fe80::213:21ff:fe5b:51c%em0 U em0 ff01:3::/32 ::1 U lo0 ff02::/16 ::1 UGRS lo0 ff02::%em0/32 fe80::213:21ff:fe5b:51c%em0 U em0 ff02::%lo0/32 ::1 U lo0 > What happens if you try and ping localhost? $ ping -c5 localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.109 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.103 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.060 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.059 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.059 ms --- localhost ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.059/0.078/0.109/0.023 ms many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423