Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.8p9+dfsg-2.1 Severity: wishlist If ntpq tries to contact localhost via IPv6, and that fails because ntpd isn't listening there, it doesn't try the IPv4 localhost address. It would be great if it did try that.
This may also be seen as a documentation bug report, apparently running ntpd with -4 option (which according to the manpage only affects DNS name resolution) also prevents ntpd listening to ::1, and ntpq tries to connect to ::1 port 123 and fails. The problem is that I don't have IPv6 connectivity with the internet, so ntpq resolves IPv6 addresses and tries to connect to them. I thought that passing -4 would solve this, but apparently not just the resolving is affected, all IPv6 processing is disabled. Maybe split these two aspects of IPv6 into separate options? Thanks, Paul -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.9-wurtel-ws (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages ntp depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii dpkg 1.18.22 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii libcap2 1:2.25-1 ii libedit2 3.1-20160903-3 ii libopts25 1:5.18.12-3 ii libssl1.1 1.1.0d-2 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii netbase 5.4 Versions of packages ntp recommends: pn perl:any <none> Versions of packages ntp suggests: pn ntp-doc <none> -- no debconf information
