ntpd[3012]: sendto(203.109.252.7) (fd=21): Invalid argument ??

[Rob Brown-Bayliss]

On 11/21/06, sean <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> /var/log/messages is full of:
>
> Nov 20 21:13:25 localhost ntpd[3012]: sendto(203.109.252.7)
> (fd=21): Invalid argument
> Nov 20 21:28:57 localhost ntpd[3012]: sendto(195.224.39.103)
> (fd=21): Invalid argument
> Nov 20 21:30:13 localhost ntpd[3012]: sendto(193.226.140.53)
> (fd=21): Invalid argument
> Nov 20 21:30:28 localhost ntpd[3012]: sendto(203.109.252.7)
> (fd=21): Invalid argument
> Nov 20 21:46:01 localhost ntpd[3012]: sendto(195.224.39.103)
> (fd=21): Invalid argument
> Nov 20 21:47:17 localhost ntpd[3012]: sendto(193.226.140.53)
> (fd=21): Invalid argument
> Nov 20 21:47:32 localhost ntpd[3012]: sendto(203.109.252.7)
> (fd=21): Invalid argument
>
> is this a config error, or a bug?


A bug I thing, the current version ov ntpd as used in fc6 needs to a
permanent link to the time servers in it's config.  For some reason if
the machines connection dies or is disabled, then reconected ntpd
still things the conection is down...

At least thats my understanding, my temporary work around is to
restart ntpd every hour via cron as I havea very unstable isp
connection :-(


-- 
Rob