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

[Johan Walles]

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[2982]: ntpd 4.2.2p4 at 1.1585-o Sat Oct 21 14:37:05 UTC 2006 (1)
Feb 12 18:49:16 localhost ntpd[2983]: precision = 1.000 usec
Feb 12 18:49:16 localhost ntpd[2983]: Listening on interface wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Disabled
Feb 12 18:49:16 localhost ntpd[2983]: Listening on interface wildcard, ::#123 Disabled
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
Feb 12 18:49:16 localhost ntpd[2983]: Listening on interface lo, ::1#123 Enabled
Feb 12 18:49:16 localhost ntpd[2983]: Listening on interface lo, 127.0.0.1#123 Enabled
Feb 12 18:49:16 localhost ntpd[2983]: Listening on interface eth0, 83.250.229.49#123 Enabled
Feb 12 18:49:16 localhost ntpd[2983]: Listening on interface eth1, 192.168.0.3#123 Enabled
Feb 12 18:49:16 localhost ntpd[2983]: kernel time sync status 0040
Feb 12 18:49:16 localhost ntpd[2983]: frequency initialized 59.115 PPM from /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
Feb 12 18:52:30 localhost ntpd[2983]: synchronized to 130.237.224.78, stratum 2
Feb 12 18:52:30 localhost ntpd[2983]: time reset -0.457582 s
Feb 12 18:52:30 localhost ntpd[2983]: kernel time sync enabled 0001
Feb 12 18:55:45 localhost ntpd[2983]: synchronized to 130.237.224.78, stratum 2

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 binding those addresses really aren't in any of my config files, I'd like ntpd not to try to
binding to them.

If binding those addresses *is* in some config file, I'd like to know which one so I can disable
it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.102        Add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                     1:1.10-14    support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libreadline5                5.2-2        GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                 0.9.8c-4     SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-23       Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                     4.29         Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl                        5.8.8-7      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

ntp recommends no packages.

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