listen-on ignored?

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Thu Aug 11 01:30:16 UTC 2005


/dev/rob0 wrote:
> On Tuesday 2005-August-09 13:24, Jason Morehouse wrote:
> 
>>listen-on {69.41.244.102; localhost;};
> 
> 
> Read the _BIND_9_ARM_ (included with the source). "localhost" is a 
> built-in ACL which encompasses all IP addresses on the machine. Perhaps 
> unfortunate that the same word means 127.0.0.1 in other contexts, but 
> also consider that you cannot use hostnames in your configuration. You 
> can only use IP addresses and defined ACL's.

No it doesn't. localhost is either 127.0.0.1 or ::1, nothing more and 
nothing less.

Danny



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