interface-interval

[Curt Sampson]

For BIND 9, Is there any particular reason that interface-interval is
measured in minutes, rather than in seconds? Is this a particularly
expensive operation? Are there any plans to add the ability to listen
for interface changes on the routing socket or similar, for immediate
changes?

There are two places where one really wants BIND to start listening on
new interfaces as quickly as possible. One is when you unsuspend your
laptop and DHCP a new address; it would be nice if one didn't have to
restart BIND immediately after that. The other is on servers terminating
VPN connections where you want the remote host to be using the BIND on
that host because it's trusted and doing DNSSEC validation.

Just as a side note, by the way, I'd like to thank the helpful experts
on this list; it's one of the best I've seen in terms of providing
helpful technical advice. Good work, guys.

cjs
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