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Date:      Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:12:13 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Specifying interface bind binds to?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909071210300.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105C29@site2s1>

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On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote:

> Hi,
> I just setup bind to use the bind "sandbox".  Everything works except that
> it is trying to bind to every interface on the system, and since my system
> is on a dynamic ip, it can't bind to the new ip's when they are assigned to
> tun0.
> 
> Is there any option to tell bind to only to 'bind' to one interface?  I
> didn't see anything relevant in the man page or the named.conf

You can try the "listen-on" directive:

options {
   ...
   listen-on { ip.add.es.s ; } ;
};

I haven't been able to find anything in bind that helps it
deal with an interface's IP address changing.  Maybe you can
use a ppp directive to restart named if the interface changes?

hope this helps,
-Alfred

> 
> Thanks,
> -Chris
> 
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