[Unbound-users] interface-automatic: yes and default listen addresses

Wouter Wijngaards wouter at NLnetLabs.nl
Mon Oct 20 08:37:09 UTC 2008


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Hi Paul,

The option overrides the interfaces specified by the user.  The socket
options that it is using need to use the ANY interface.   It even
detects newly added network interfaces real-time and services them.

Also, the socket options may require IPv6.  I am not sure to what
extent.  Because of that, it may not be such a nice default-option...

Really, it is mostly useful for anycast (load-balancing solutions).

Is what you need an new option that I would call;
set-interface-automatic-if-ANY-is-specified-as-interface ?

Best regards,
   Wouter

Paul Wouters wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When not specifying an interface line, or when specifically specifying
> 127.0.0.1 and ::1, unbound should only bind to the localhost ip addresses.
> 
> This works fine, unless interface-automatic: yes is set. Then it suddenly
> starts to bind on ANY.
> 
> This is somewhat problematic when shipping good defaults for distributions,
> where you'd want to default on listening only only localhost, but you also
> want to support multiple interfaces (once configured by the user) to use
> the proper source IP on replies.
> 
> Paul
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