Problem with bind and multiple interfaces.

Barry Margolin barry.margolin at level3.com
Thu Nov 6 19:37:23 UTC 2003


In article <boe7iu$2euk$1 at sf1.isc.org>,  <aabouk01 at fiu.edu> wrote:
>Hi, I'm running aix 4.3.3 with bind8. I have two interfaces on the
>machine, en0 and en1. I can use dig and nslookup to lookup names and
>address on en1. But when i try to do the same on en0, i don't get a
>response from bind.
>
>I can telnet to port 53 on en0, so it is listening. Both interfaces are
>on different subnets. 
>
>Also, I have many ip's setup as aliases on en1 and I can use any one and
>i get a successful response.

Maybe there's a firewall or filtering router blocking UDP from en0's
address.  Can you use dig with the +vc option to query en0?  That uses TCP,
like telnet.

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