Bind not listening?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9lc61v$fq2 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Michael Kjorling  <michael at kjorling.com> wrote:
>> Aug 14 13:33:00 naboo named[1216]: Forwarding source address is
>> [0.0.0.0].1031
>
>Is this a bug in BIND, or why does so many use 0.0.0.0 as the
>forwarding source address? 

That's the default.  It means that it will let the OS choose the source
address when it sends out the query.

>			    First of all I would suggest that you don't
>use forwarding at all - it creates single points of failure more than
>anything else, which is one of the things DNS tries to _avoid_ (why do

This message doesn't refer specifically to the "forwarders" option, it's
talking about the source address used when performing any form of
recursion.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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