[ntp:questions] Re: Bad File Descriptor

Daniel Rudy nospam at nospam.net
Sun Aug 7 20:05:51 UTC 2005


At about the time of 8/6/2005 8:26 AM, mike stated the following:

> Daniel Rudy wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>	I'm having an issue with ntp 4.2.0-a on FreeBSD 5.4-p4 system.  It
>>seems that ntpd is recording bad file descriptor errors in the system
>>log.  This seems to happen every 9-10 minutes or so.  I have a copy of
>>the logs below as well as my /etc/ntp.conf file.  This has been going on
>>for awhile now, and I'm not sure when it started.  Any idea as to what
>>is causing this problem?
>>
>>Any help is appriciated.  Thank you.
>>
> 
> 
>    I have not checked the code, but you appear to have a very 
> pesssimistic list of servers. As this is just something that appears 
> intermittently it may be related to the number you have defined.
> Five should be enough even for the purists. Try that and see if it fixes 
> the issue.

New Config File:

wildfire:/etc 1033 ### ->cat ntp.conf
#server time.windows.com iburst
#server clepsydra.dec.com iburst
#server time.xmission.com iburst
#server ntp2.sth.netnod.se iburst
#server ntp2.sp.se iburst
server bitsy.mit.edu iburst
server clock.via.net iburst
server clock.isc.org iburst
server us.pool.ntp.org iburst

restrict 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nopeer nomodify notrap kod
restrict 127.0.0.1 mask 255.0.0.0



Aug  7 13:01:06 wildfire ntpd[8337]: sendto(209.81.9.7): Bad file descriptor
Aug  7 13:01:06 wildfire ntpd[8337]: sendto(24.130.207.189): Bad file
descriptor
Aug  7 13:01:07 wildfire ntpd[8337]: sendto(204.152.184.72): Bad file
descriptor
Aug  7 13:01:07 wildfire ntpd[8337]: sendto(18.72.0.3): Bad file descriptor
Aug  7 13:01:08 wildfire ntpd[8337]: sendto(209.81.9.7): Bad file descriptor
Aug  7 13:01:08 wildfire ntpd[8337]: sendto(24.130.207.189): Bad file
descriptor
Aug  7 13:01:09 wildfire ntpd[8337]: sendto(204.152.184.72): Bad file
descriptor
Aug  7 13:01:09 wildfire ntpd[8337]: sendto(18.72.0.3): Bad file descriptor
Aug  7 13:01:10 wildfire ntpd[8337]: sendto(209.81.9.7): Bad file descriptor
Aug  7 13:01:10 wildfire ntpd[8337]: sendto(24.130.207.189): Bad file
descriptor


Same problem with only 4 servers.  And as someone else suggested, I did
remove the iburst option to no avail.

wildfire:/etc 1034 ### ->/usr/sbin/ntpd --version
/usr/sbin/ntpd: ntpd 4.2.0-a Tue Jul 19 00:50:14 PDT 2005 (1)

wildfire:/etc 1035 ### ->uname -a
FreeBSD wildfire..org 5.4-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p4 #4: Tue Jul
19 02:29:40 PDT 2005 root at strata:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WILDFIRE  i386


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