[rbldnsd] I HATE BIND - please help

[Chris.]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:59:11 +0000 (UTC), Chris. wrote...

> On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:01:20 +0100, furio ercolessi wrote...
> 
>> 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"
> 
> Hello, and thank you for your reply.
> 
> Quite so, and I have that as part of my rc.conf.
> Of course I also have the following:
> ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0". :)

OOPS! That should have read:
ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0". :P
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> But unfortunately, I'm still not having any success w/rbldnsd.
> All queries return REFUSED.
> 
> Thanks again for your reply.
> 
> --Chris H
> 
>> 
>> furio
>> 
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