From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 18:07:28 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 4F404106564A for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:07:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FB8E8FC16 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:07:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5GI78dp094115 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:07:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4C1912CB.9000609@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:07:07 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anton Shterenlikht References: <20100616165909.GA55995@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <4C190513.20309@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100616171531.GA56202@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100616171531.GA56202@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.1 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: 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 18:07:28 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 16/06/2010 18:15:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > 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 Nothing obviously wrong there. Perhaps ntpd is not running? (Not sure quite why that should cause an error message about reachability of localhost: I suppose it's not completely unreasonable though.) If ntpd is running, then try restarting it. If the problem still persists, then it looks like you've found a bug. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwZEssACgkQ8Mjk52CukIz1XgCgkLHmyJIeLRIZxDAdHpYrG4rD 4ooAn0NkTus2QM8SKOGH3mCwWk6upiky =B9su -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----