Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] ntp problem

[Philip P. <ph...@vo...>]

Yes its IPV6 that breaks it.
I disables IPV6 routing and it then works ok.

Philip

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Bruce Smith wrote:
> I can confirm that ntpd is broken, with the default config anyway.
>
> I did some strace'ing and it's trying to listen on a IPv6 wildcard
> address "::". 
>
> I'm guessing it's not working because I'm not running IPv6, and I
> haven't figured out if how to turn off IPv6 in ntp.conf, or if it's even
> possible to turn off IPv6 in ntpd.
>
> Anyone with some IPv6 knowledge have any ideas?  
> Maybe if I activated IPv6 on eth0?  How do I do that?
>
> For now, I guess I'll stick a 'ntpdate' in an hourly cron job to keep my
> server's time correct.  But that won't help people who need to run a
> real NTP server.
>
>  - BS
>
>
>   
>> Yep, after reboot, and everytime I try to start xntpd.
>> I found another guy on the web who was complaining that he notices the same thing when running ntp
>> and one of the eth interfaces was down. Mine are up but that's why I rather think it's and ntp bug
>> ...
>>
>> lsof output:
>>
>> COMMAND  PID   USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
>> dhcpcd   545   root    4u  IPv4   5090       UDP *:bootpc 
>> dnsmasq  684 nobody    4u  IPv4   5796       UDP *:domain 
>> dnsmasq  684 nobody    5u  IPv4   5797       TCP *:domain (LISTEN)
>> dnsmasq  684 nobody    9u  IPv4   5810       UDP *:filenet-tms 
>> dhcpd    771   root    5u  IPv4   6329       UDP *:bootps 
>> sshd     901   root    3u  IPv4   7006       TCP esgaroth:ssh (LISTEN)
>> smbd    1243   root   18u  IPv4   8570       TCP esgaroth:microsoft-ds (LISTEN)
>> smbd    1243   root   19u  IPv4   8571       TCP esgaroth:netbios-ssn (LISTEN)
>> nmbd    1247   root    6u  IPv4   8793       UDP *:netbios-ns 
>> nmbd    1247   root    7u  IPv4   8794       UDP *:netbios-dgm 
>> nmbd    1247   root    8u  IPv4   8796       UDP esgaroth:netbios-ns 
>> nmbd    1247   root    9u  IPv4   8797       UDP esgaroth:netbios-dgm  
>>
>> as you see no port 123. Also I see no ntp in the process list
>>
>> Best regards
>> --- Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Do you get this message after you reboot the box?
>>>
>>> What's the output of the following commands:
>>> lsof -i tcp:123
>>> lsof -i udp:123
>>>       
>
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