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

[Kurt Roeckx]

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