* fe...@banane.de.vc <fe...@banane.de.vc> [2012-01-13 18:43]:
> I run OpenBSD 5.0 (amd64) with ntpd. About 5 to 10 times a day, it
> logs errors like the following to /var/log/messages and
> /var/log/daemon:
> 
> Jan 11 02:04:53 abc ntpd[26588]: sendto: Can't assign requested address

that's sendto(2) returning EADDRNOTAVAIL.
without having checked wether that actually is the error returned in
this case...

> This box is part of the ntp pool (www.pool.ntp.org) so it gets about
> 10 ntp querys per second on average, occasionally many more.

..but could you simply run out of port space? if so, playing with
sysctl net.inet.ip.port* should help. 

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