Named Listen IP

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Tuesday, August 12, 2008 01:08:46 +1000 Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> 
wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Onur Aslan wrote:
>  > I am using named for a ns server. Named listening all ips for my
>  > machine. But when i reboot machine, my ppp network connecting after
>  > started named. named doesn't listening my ppp network's ip. Do you
>  > have a solution?
>
> Assuming you have a fixed IP address when ppp comes up, specify that
> address in named's listen-on list.  When ppp has connected, assigned its
> addresses and set the default route, have ppp run an up-script that runs
> '/etc/rc.d/named restart'.
>
> named will then see the ppp interface and listen on that address as well
> as any others specified, like localhost.  ppp runs its up/down scripts
> as root; you don't need (or want) to have named running as root.
>

Just wondering - couldn't this be fixed by adding the keyword "network" to the 
REQUIRE portion of the /etc/rc.d/named script?  (Right now it contains SERVERS 
and cleanvar.  I'm suggesting adding network.)

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Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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