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Date:      Fri, 29 Dec 1995 15:15:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      Joe Provo <jprovo@romulus.ultranet.com>
To:        bind-users@vix.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, volf@oasis.IAEhv.nl
Subject:   Re: Freebsd IP alias and BIND
Message-ID:  <199512292015.PAA02646@romulus.ultranet.com>

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>> When a query is sent to the IP alias two responses are generated: one
>> response with the real IP address as the source address, the other one with
>> the alias address as the source address:
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>I did some more testing to find this problem. With bind debuggind enabled, I 
>found:
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>This means that bind really gets two copies of the datagram (one send to
>fd 6, the other one to fd 8) and hence, bind is operating correctly and 
>FreeBSD is wrong:

This seems to be the case with most services on alias interfaces; breaking 
or working "right" is OS specific.  For the record, attempting to use alias
interfaces as an "authoritative" name server breaks on OSF [DEC Unix(tm)] 
3.2 (4.9.3b24).

Cheers,

Joe Provo
Network Operations Center
UltraNet Communications, Inc.



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