ntpd problems

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sun Oct 23 07:50:52 PDT 2005


Shelby Westman <shelby.westman at gmail.com> writes:

> I am a relatively new freeBSD user. The problem I describe below happens on
> both a 5.4 install and a 6.0 RC1 install.
> 
> Right after installing the OS, I enable ntpd in rc.conf, and setup a simple
> config file in /etc/ntp.conf. When I reboot, I get this message:
> 
> Oct 22 10:40:57 alter ntpd[392]: ntpd 4.2.0-a Sun Oct 9 18:33:33 UTC 2005
> (1)
> Oct 22 10:40:57 alter ntpd[392]: bind() fd 6, family 28, port 123, addr
> fe80:1::202:55ff:fe58:2957, in6_is_addr_multicast=0 flags=0 fails: Can't
> assign requested address
> 
> Then ntpd does not synchronize the time. I set the clock manually (using
> date) five minutes ahead to check and in fact it does not get adjusted.
> 
> I have tried all sorts of things. I tried assigning numeric addresses rather
> than host names in the config file. I tried enabling ipv6 in sysinstall.
> This machine does have a good route to the internet - I can use nslookup to
> resolve host names, so I know the networking is working.
> 
> Below I have quoted the ntp.conf. The log file is empty - nothing is being
> written there.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas? I am stumped... thanks for your help.
> 
> Shelby
> 
> __________________
> 
> config file as it stands now...
> 
> logfile /var/log/ntpd.log
> 
> # deny-by-default policy
> restrict default ignore
> 
> #server -4 ntp-2.ece.cmu.edu <http://ntp-2.ece.cmu.edu>
> #server -4 ticker.cis.sac.accd.edu <http://ticker.cis.sac.accd.edu>
> #server -4 lain.ziaspace.com <http://lain.ziaspace.com>
> #server -4 ntp1.linuxmedialabs.com <http://ntp1.linuxmedialabs.com>
> server 17.254.0.31 <http://17.254.0.31>
> 
> driftfile /var/spool/ntp.drift


You're probably running into problems with your restrict clause, but
I'm not sure what offhand.
Use the "-d" flag to ntpd (or more than one) to get more information
on what it thinks the problem is.


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