Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] ntp problem

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

Yup, that "fixes" it!  :-)

 - BS


> Forgot to mention how to do it:
> 
> Setup -> Services to be started on boot -> IPV6_ROUTING
> 
> Turn this off. Save config. Reboot.
> 
> 
> 
> Philip Peake wrote: 
> > Yes its IPV6 that breaks it.
> > I disables IPV6 routing and it then works ok.
> > 
> > Philip
> > 
> > ---------------
> > 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