Subject: Re: bin/5258: xntpd boots to weird state if link is down
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/07/1998 00:01:50
On Apr 6, der Mouse wrote
> But yes, when I had it networking via serial, I saw this problem too:
> ntp was started before ppp, and never recovered without manual
> intervention.
> 
> I never investigated enough to tell what was wrong.  Once using the
> ethernet worked, the effective problem disappeared....
> 

While we're talking about it: xntp don't work in broadcast mode (i.e. 
"broadcastclient yes" in ntp.conf) when an interface has one or more aliases:
it seems it tries to bind listening socket for each braodcast adresses it
finds, and gets the same several times with intyerfaces IP aliases. So
it fails with "address already in use". Didn't look at this yet, but I will
soon.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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