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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Named -- Specifying addresses to bind to.
To: joe@pavilion.net (Josef Karthauser)
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 09:19:37 -0700 (MST)
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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!)

You should probably check out the "DEFAULT" stuff on Paul Vixies WWW
pages on www.vix.com.  It addresses all these problems (apparently
for BSDI, but FreeBSD should benefit as well).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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