From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 15 09:06:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA21080 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:06:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA21074 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:06:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA24621; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:06:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:06:08 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: Graeme Tait cc: Lew Payne , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange Network Problem In-Reply-To: <3675CF7C.671A@echidna.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Graeme Tait wrote: > I found the following (evidently written some time ago) which confirms what > Dan Busarow wrote, and expands on it: > > http://www.cypher.net/~black/ipalias.html > > > Quoting from the above: > > "First, there is a bug in all distributions of bind (the named DNS server is > part of BIND) that prevents named from starting properly when there are more > than 64 aliases on an interface." > > Is this still true? No, I just checked on a 2.2.5 machine with a ~ !50 aliases on it. Bind started up just fine. The latest bind also allows you to specify which ip to listen on (or should I say bind to :) Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message