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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 07:55:54 +0100
From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>
Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Making bind listen only to loopback interface
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 08:47:10AM +1000, BSD Freak wrote:

> Is there any quick and easy way to make BIND (the version shipped
> with 4.5-R and later) listen only the the loopback interface address
> (ie 127.0.0.1) instead of all available addresses?

Yes.  You can add a `listen-on' statement to the options section of
named.conf:

    options {

        [...]

        listen-on {
           127.0.0.1;
        };

        [...]
    };

The named.conf(5) man page has the full details.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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