Re: Binding inetd to ip

[dwelch () hotmail com]

On Tue, 25 January 2000, Nicholas Tang wrote:


> Is it possible to bind inetd to a specific ip address/ethernet card under
> linux?  I haven't been able to find any info myself, but the reason I
> ask is because I currently am running a nameserver that has two network
> cards.

Probably not without hacking inetd. I belive it does a bind to 0.0.0.0, which effectively means "bind to all IPs on the 
system." You'd have to change it to bind to a specific interface, which is probably not all that difficult to do.

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