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From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
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Subject: Re: Named -- Specifying addresses to bind to.
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you didn't specify what version of bind you are using.  i believe recent 
releases of the code has this option in the compilation config file.

On Fri, 23 May 1997, Josef Karthauser wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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!)
> 
> Joe
> -- 
> Josef Karthauser        
> Technical Manager       Email: joe@pavilion.net
> Pavilion Internet plc.  [Tel: +44 1273 607072  Fax: +44 1273 607073]
>