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Date:      Sun, 14 Nov 1999 08:54:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      Barrett Richardson <barrett@phoenix.aye.net>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why not sandbox BIND? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9911140848330.29218-100000@phoenix.aye.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991112102519.045cf510@localhost>

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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Brett Glass wrote:

> It'd be a shame if a PPP dial-up server couldn't sandbox BIND,
> since it's a good idea to keep a DNS server as close to the
> dial-ups as possible. Any ideas about how one might work around
> this, short of going to a capabilities-based security model?
> 
> --Brett
> 

I run bind on my box I dial an ISP with, I just use a directive like

  listen-on port 53 {
      127.0.0.1;
  };

For a dial up server you should be able to add a routable ip to the
loopback and listen on that.

-

Barrett



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