Re: To the bind maintainer

[md@linux.it (Marco d'Itri)]

On Jan 25, Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl> wrote:

 >Every time I'm reminded of bind attaching itself to each interface
 >explicitly, I wonder why it does that (and doesn't simply bind to
 >0.0.0.0). _Is_ there a valid reason?
Yes, the RFC requires responses coming out of the same interface the
question came in.
But as I wrote early, this problem can be solved either using
capabilities or with a very small suid program which just opens the
sockets and passes them back to named.

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ciao,
Marco