Comments on: Error: Servname not supported for ai_socktype

By: Li-aung Yip

Li-aung Yip — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:58:16 +0000

Ah, this fixed my problem with ntp as well. Thank you.

- Lewis.

hikerlin — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:56:16 +0000

thanks.you help me a lot in a apue question sollution

Mahesh — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:47:33 +0000

Thanks for the post. I was able to quickly resolve my problem with the help of this post.

L?on Planken — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:47:49 +0000

The link to nsswitch.conf is also very helpful. Thanks, also to Kyle!

Flood — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:57:38 +0000

Thanks it worked here

Bill Thomson — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:22:39 +0000

Like LudoA, I too had no idea what was wrong.
Your tip enabled me to fix the issue quickly.
Thanks VERY much!

nd — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:26:39 +0000

had the same error when
services: ldap [NOTFOUND=return] files
was specified at nsswitch.conf
Mis-configured ldap server caused problem..

Jr H — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:19:46 +0000

Install service ntp apt-get or yum install

Nabla » ntpdate on dns323 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:18:27 +0000

[...] ntpdate error: Error : Servname not supported for ai_socktype in /etc/services add: ntp 123/tcp ntp 123/udp run: ntpdate pool.ntp.org and it should be working. more info: http://www.ducea.com/2006/09/11/error-servname-not-supported-for-ai_socktype/ [...]

ATI — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:57:45 +0000

Thank you. Useful to know