not listening on ppp0

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Tue Aug 31 15:08:58 UTC 1999


In article <19990830092908.A882 at metta.lk>,  <bind at metta.lk> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am running RH6 wit bind 8.2.1 on a machine 
>which is not connected to the net.
>
>I get bulk mail down from my ISP via a ppp link 3 times a day.
>and have users login via ppp to get their mail from me.
>
>Tt the time the users login my named will not answer on ppp0
>as it is only listening on 127.0.0.1

Named normally checks which interfaces are available when it first starts
up and then every hour after that.  You can use:

options {
  interface-interval 5;}
};

to make it check every 5 minutes.  If ppp0 is up when it checks, it will
start listening on it.

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