[OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd log message about AF_INET6 interface

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2014, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On OpenIndiana 5.11 oi_151a9 I am seeing a message in /var/adm/messages every 
> five minutes which looks like:
>
> Mar  7 20:40:33 weerd ntpd[19474]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] bind(54) AF_INET6 
> fe80::225:90ff:fe6b:ace0%26%26#123 flags 0x11 failed: Cannot assign requested 
> address
> Mar  7 20:40:33 weerd ntpd[19474]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] unable to create 
> socket on igb0 (6) for fe80::225:90ff:fe6b:ace0%26#123

Since I posted this message, I see that Gary Mills has posted bug 4603 
(https://www.illumos.org/issues/4603) and how to fix the problem by 
building ntpd from source with an added configuration option.

Hopefully the ntp package will be rebuilt with his fix soon.

Bob
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