David J Taylor wrote: > I have ntpd 4.2.4p6 running on a Windows 7 RC machine. > >>From the command prompt, when I enter: ping <pc-name>, ping works > correctly, but seems to be using an IPv6 address. I guess this must be an > auto-assigned address, as I have no IPv6 network as such. If I enter: > ntpq -c rv <pc-name>, I get the error message: > > ntpq: read: no such file or directory > > This PC is primarily an IPv4 pc, and if I enter the command with the IPv4 > numeric address: ntpq -c rv 1.2.3.4, it works as expected. If I add an > entry to etc/hosts 1.2.3.4 pc-name, the ntpq -c rv <ip-name> works > correctly > > I can't reproduce the problem on a Windows Vista PC running ntp 4.2.5p181. > > So, with PCs having both IPv4 and IPv6 running, is there a difference > between ntp 4.2.4 and 4.2.5 which would explain such behaviour? >
4.2.4 does not have IPv6 support on Windows while 4.2.5p181 does. Dave Hart did report a problem with using ntpq over IPv6 on Windows but it has not been debugged yet. I should check that on Unix as well. Danny -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
