Re: bind running as root in Mandrake 7.0

[Sebastian Rittau <srittau@jroger.in-berlin.de>]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 04:17:41AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:

> i don't think it is necessary (or really desirable) to have the
> postinst asking about running bind as root, i think that the number of
> people who need it is far to small to justify ya interuption in the
> system install. 

I tend to disagree. bind could use debconf and ask a question with
priority "low", default set to running bind without root permissions.

Another approach is to fix bind by binding INADDR_ANY as was pointed out
in this thread. This may have undesirable side-effects, though.

 - Sebastian