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Subject: Re: Named -- Specifying addresses to bind to.
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> We've got a bit of a problem with a named process.  We run named on
> our virtual web server (now FreeBSD2.2.2).  This has a whole class
> C of ip addresses and named tries to bind to them all.  This is a bit
> excessive!!
> 
> I've now patched named so that it can take a flag which specifies an
> IP address to bind to.  Is there anyway that this functionallity could
> be make official?   (So that it doesn't break on the next cvsup!)

This kind of functionality *is* standard in bind-8.1. I'm not sure it
would be worth the effort to get this added as an official part of
bind-4.9.5.

Btw, bind-8.1 compiles out of the box (as in: make clean; make depend;
make) on FreeBSD-2.2 and newer.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no