bind fails

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 22:34:27 +0000 (GMT)


I'm finding that xntpd doesn't work, and I don't remember when it broke.
The message in the log is:

Jan 26 22:14:11 cyberelk xntpd[136]: xntpd 3-5.89 Wed Feb 26 14:19:52 MST 1997 (1)
[...]
Jan 26 22:14:11 cyberelk xntpd[136]: bind() fd 9, family 2, port 123, addr c0a801ff, in_classd=0 flags=0 fails: Address already in use

(followed by:)

Jan 26 22:14:11 cyberelk nfsd[139]: setsockopt failed: Invalid argument
Jan 26 22:14:11 cyberelk nfsd[139]: setsockopt failed: Invalid argument

But, "grep -i 7b /proc/net/{tcp,udp}" shows nothing, so doesn't that mean
the address isn't in use?

Now, it could be that xntpd has never worked since I installed Debian
1.3.1 a few weeks ago, I really don't recall. Before then I had xntpd
5.90. So: should I investigate xntpd or the kernel?

Tim.
*/

#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=y
# CONFIG_NETLINK is not set
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
# CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set
# CONFIG_FILTER is not set
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
# CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE is not set
# CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y