ipv6 bind to single v6-address
Clenna Lumina
savagebeaste at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 22 18:26:46 UTC 2007
Danny Mayer wrote:
> Arul Murugan wrote:
>> Hi Florian,
>> Listen-on-v6 Specifies the ports on which the server
>> listens for incoming
>> queries sent using IPv6. The server does not bind a separate socket
>> to each IPv6 interface address as it does for IPv4. Instead, it
>> always listens on the IPv6 wildcard address. Therefore, the values
>> allowed for the address_match_list argument to the listen-on-v6
>> option are:
>> b" any
>> b" none
>> Multiple listen-on-v6 options can be used to listen on
>> multiple ports. For example:
>> listen-on-v6 port 53 { any; };
>> listen-on-v6 port 1234 { any; };
>> To make the server not listen on any IPv6 address, specify
>> the following:
>> listen-on-v6 { none; };
>> If the listen-on-v6 option is not specified, the server does not
>> listen on any IPv6 address.
>
> You are misinformed. It does not listen on the wildcard socket, it
> binds to each address separately just as it does with IPv4 addresses.
> From the ARM:
But when the original poster (Florian) said he used 'any;' it bound to
the wild card:
Florian wrote:
>
> Bind is only starting an working with ipv6 if i do the following in
> /etc/named.conf:
> -------------------
> listen-on-v6 {
> any;
> };
> -------------------
> #dig @2001:470:1f00:484::2 -6 -t aaaa www6.agilolfinger.de
> is resolving; ok
>
> #netstat -an | grep -E "(:53|:953|:32)"
[...]
> tcp 0 0 :::53 :::* LISTEN
[...]
> udp 0 0 :::53 :::*
And didn't bind IPv6 to anything when to tried to explicitly set an
interface:
Florian wrote:
>
> I have more ip-v6-adresses on my interface and want to bind the named
> on a certain address like :
> /etc/named.conf
> -------------------
> listen-on-v6 {
> ::1;
> 2001:470:1f00:484::2;
> };
> -------------------
> #dig @2001:470:1f00:484::2 -6 -t aaaa www6.agilolfinger.de
> dig is timing out
>
> #netstat -an | grep -E "(:53|:953|:32)"
> tcp 0 0 194.77.3.34:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
> tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
[...]
> udp 0 0 194.77.3.34:53 0.0.0.0:*
> udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:*
There seems to be a rather glaring inconsistancy between some of these
docs and/or versions. Perhaps "listen-on-v6" is just broken on some
builds?
--
CL
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