On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:43:50AM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've updated my public NTP server (time.cdmon.com); 4.5 works like a charm!
>
> Despite of that, I see the following warning in /var/log/messages
>
> (...]
> May 21 23:53:53 time ntpd[12997]: sendto: Can't assign requested address
> May 22 00:03:58 time last message repeated 66 times
> May 22 00:13:52 time last message repeated 66 times
> May 22 00:23:56 time last message repeated 67 times
> May 22 00:33:48 time last message repeated 65 times
>
> I've searched this warning it in my /usr/src (after a CVS update, of
> course), to figure out what this messages means but I get no results.
>
> ?Any clues?
>
> PD. Curiosly, when this warning appeas in /var/log/messages the server
> reliability falls
> (http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/212.36.75.245#graph_explanation).
>
> PD. I suspect a CPD connection issue....
You may want to look at the output of netstat and possibly fstat: some
other process may claim the port that ntpd wants to use.
Joachim
