[rbldnsd] I HATE BIND - please help

[furio ercolessi]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:50:21PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 
> So this brings up my first question - the inability to bind to loopback
> other than 127.0.0.1.  I'm not an expert in FreeBSD, so it's not my game.
> Maybe it's version dependent, maybe some local settings or compile-time
> flag - I've no idea.  The thing is that one of your systems allows to bind
> to any 127.x.x.x address freely, while another does not.
> 
> Note it's not rbldnsd who refuses to bind to 127.0.0.3 etc, it's the Operating
> System who does not permit it to do so.

The IP addresses that you need have to be defined as local IP aliases.
For instance, this can be done at boot time by inserting in /etc/rc.conf 
a line like

ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 127.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.255"

furio