named is listening on wrong device

[Joseph S D Yao]

> After starting named (BIND 8.1), I find the following line in the log
> file:
> 
> Sep 6 22:05:16 stargate named[174]: listening on [62.104.96.206].53
> (ippp0)
> 
> The problem is, this is the dynamic IP address given to me when I start
> the ISDN ppp connection to the ISP. Next time I connect I have a
> different IP address, and the above IP address may be in use by someone
> else.
> 
> How can I stop named from accessing this device? I don't even have an
> idea how named discovered my ISDN device name.

Do you not want it listening for queries on your ISDN port at all?  Or
are you just worried that it will continue to listen on that pseudo-
device when it isn't there any more?

Don't worry.  The 'named' process checks periodically whether a device
and IP address exist or not.  When that connection goes away, 'named'
will stop listening on it.  Eventually, when you build up another
connection with a [possibly] different IP address, it will start
listening on that one.

If, OTOH, you don't want it to listen on your ISDN port at all, look in
your documentation for the "listen-on" option, that takes a list of one
or more addresses on which you DO want to listen for queries.  Be sure
to include 127.0.0.1 as one of those addresses!

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