Bug#411250: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#411250: ntp: Fails to bind to unrequested addresses

[Johan Walles]

Thanks!  I'll just add that to my logcheck filters in that case.

Off-topic question: You don't happen to know if there's an officially
sanctioned way for me to disable ipv6 in the kernel?  Just like you
guessed, it's not like I'm *using* it for anything.

  Cheers //Johan

2007/2/26, Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be>:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 02:47:53PM +0100, Johan Walles wrote:
> > Package: ntp
> > Version: 1:4.2.2.p4+dfsg-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> >
> > Cannot say how severe this is, but I get this in my logs:
> > Feb 12 18:49:16 localhost ntpd[2983]: bind() fd 18, family 10, port 123, scope 3, addr fe80::202:b3ff:fe94:c4c0, in6_is_addr_multicast=0 flags=1 fails: Cannot assign requested address
> > Feb 12 18:49:16 localhost ntpd[2983]: bind() fd 18, family 10, port 123, scope 2, addr fe80::214:c2ff:fe5a:2eb0, in6_is_addr_multicast=0 flags=1 fails: Cannot assign requested address
>
> I think those are harmless, those are ipv6 link local addresses.
>
> > Note the "Cannot assign requested address" lines.  I cannot find any reference to those addresses
> > in any of /etc/default/ntp or /etc/ntp.conf (will attach those files).
>
> If you run "ifconfig", you'll see those addresses on eth0 and eth1.
>
> You don't look like you're using ipv6, so I think you can ignore them,
> specially since they're not even global addresses.
>
>
> Kurt
>
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