[ntp:questions] ntp client ipv6 support

Atul Gupta atul14.kumar at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 02:16:05 UTC 2011


Hi Steve,
Thanks for your response.
Its difficult for me to move to ntp-4.2.6p3.
Does ntp-4.2.4 doesn't support ipv6 ? I have seen the release notes and it
says that it does  support.
Do i need to configure with some option to enable ipv6 multicast support?

Thanks,
Atul.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org> wrote:

> On 2011-06-15, Atul Gupta <atul14.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am using ntp package ntp-4.2.4.tar.gz
>
> This release is older than you think.
>
> The current stable is ntp-4.2.6p3
>
> ntp-4.2.4   == NTP-4 v2.4
>
> ntp-4.2.6p3 == NTP-4 v2.6.3
>
> > I want to run ntp client
>
> There is no "ntp client". Either you're using ntpd, sntp, or ntpdate.
>
> > in multicast client mode and i added following line
> > in ntp.conf file :-
> >
> > *multicastclient ff05::101*
> >
> > But it seems there is no multicast socket opened on 123.
> > ntp logs show following :-
> >
> > *addto_syslog: getaddrinfo: "ff05::101" invalid host address, ignored
> > getaddrinfo: "ff05::101" invalid host address, ignored.*
>
> Please try using the current stable release. It may be downloaded from
> http://www.ntp.org/downloads.html or http://support.ntp.org/download
>
> Also make sure that your IPv6 networking is configured correctly.
>
> --
> Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org>
> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/
>
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