syslogd starting before IPv6 network is up

Willem Jan Withagen wjw at digiware.nl
Sat May 23 20:08:59 UTC 2009


Nicolas Blais wrote:
> I migrated one of my 8-CURRENT (Thu May 21) box to IPv6 and since then, I
> get the following message at boot:
> 
> syslogd: bind: Can't assign requested address
> syslogd: bind: Can't assign requested address
> syslogd:
> child pid 250 exited with return code 1
> 
> and syslogd obviously fails to start. Apparently this problem has been
> reported before, but no actual solution other than start syslogd from
> rc.local was given.

It is not because  net.inet6.ip6.v6only is off?

Because than you otherwise get ip4 in ip6 mapping.
It should be of in recent releases, but in 5.x I remember it being on.

--WjW



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