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From: RIC@RML2.SRI.COM (Ric Steinberger)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Xntpd doesn't start.  Any ideas?
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Date: 18 Mar 91 18:52:56 GMT
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At the suggestion of a few people familiar with ntp, I have built and installed
xntp.  When I try to run xntpd, I get the same error message that I was
getting when I tried running ntpd:

Mar 18 10:21:35 ace xntpd[28361]: xntpd version 1.3
Mar 18 10:21:35 ace xntpd[28361]: get interface configuration: Can't assign 
requested address

Can someone explain what this means?  [This is from the syslog file].  Is there
some strategy I might use to debug this kind of thing?  Thanks to all who
reply.  

regards,
	ric steinberger

	ric@rml2.sri.com

This is the /etc/ntp.conf file I use on our Alliant FX/40:

# $Source: /usr/users/louie/ntp/RCS/ntp.conf,v $ $Revision: 3.4.1.1 $ $Date: 89/03/22 18:33:02 $
#
#
driftfile	/etc/ntp.drift
resolver	/usr/local/bin/xntpres
#
#	Peers - please refer to the README file for proper selection of
#		NTP peers
#
#peer	   norad.arc.nasa.gov
peer	   128.102.16.10
#peer       apple.com
peer       130.43.2.2
#peer       umd1.umd.edu
#server       wwvb.isi.edu
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