[rbldnsd] I HATE BIND - please help

[Chris.]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:02:08 +0000 (UTC), Chris. wrote...

> 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
> ---------------------------^

Some further investigation indicates that this isn't needed if
uding the BIND version 9.

Just thought it might be worth mentioning.

It also appears that RBLDNSD isn't working on FreeBSD version 7 -
see; all answers return REFUSED. :(

Can anyone confirm a /working/ installation on FBSD 7?

Thanks.

--Chris H

> 
>> But unfortunately, I'm still not having any success w/rbldnsd.
>> All queries return REFUSED.
>> 
>> Thanks again for your reply.
>> 
>> --Chris H
>> 
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