Convice Bind to listen on IP alias with a range of IPs.

[Anand Buddhdev]

On 30/04/2012 23:56, Augie Schwer wrote:

> I must be doing something wrong, because what I want to do doesn't
> seem that difficult.
> 
> I have a range of IPs bound to a local interface:
> 
> lo:1      Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:10.0.0.1  Mask:255.255.255.224

This means you've got 10.0.0.1 on the interface lo:1. You don't have
10.0.0.2 configured yet. You need to create extra virtual interfaces
called lo:2, lo:3 and so on, and give them addresses 10.0.0.2 and
10.0.0.3 and so on.

> And I want to convince Bind to listen on sub-set of the given range (
> 10.0.0.2 for example ), yet when I configure that IP:
> 
> 	listen-on { 10.0.0.2; };
> 
> Bind won't listen on that interface:
> 
> "named[15035]: not listening on any interfaces"

That's right, because 10.0.0.2 is not yet configured.

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Anand Buddhdev
RIPE NCC