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Re: bind running as root in Mandrake 7.0



On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:28:04AM +0100, Anton Ivanov wrote:
> There was a long standing discussion on this which basically boils down to the 
> fact that if you obtain your address dynamically or have dynamic interfaces 
> (some form of PPP or anything on PCMCIA) you have to run it as root in order 
> for bind to use these interfaces.
> 
> bind does not bind 0.0.0.0:53. It for one or another reason binds every 
> interface separately. Hence if an interface is not available at bind start 
> time and bind does not run as root the interfaces are not rebound.

And I still think this is a stupid reason for us to be allowing a
security problem to sit around--how many people run dns servers on
machines with dynamic addresses?

-- 
Mike Stone

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