nnrpd: can't bind (Invalid argument)

[Forrest Aldrich]

Bingo, that was the problem.   I emailed the port maintainer to suggest 
that IPV6 be "optional".

Thanks!
Forrest



Jim Davis wrote:

> Forrest Aldrich wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to understand what the problem is - this error message is 
>> (to me) ambiguous:
>>
>> # /usr/local/news/bin/nnrpd -D -S -p 563
>> /usr/local/news/bin/nnrpd: can't bind (Invalid argument)
>>
>
> Hmm.  Is this on a FreeBSD system?  Last November I ran into a problem 
> that sounds very similar; at the time the inn-stable port used 
> "--enable-ipv6" by default, and for some odd reason that lead to the 
> bind() call in nnrpd failing with an EINVAL error when it ran with the 
> -D flag.  Having no great need for an IPv6-enabled news server, I 
> rebuilt inn without that flag and the problem went away.