Can I run 2 named processes on the same machine?

Mark Powell mark at salfrd.ac.uk
Thu Apr 6 11:50:29 UTC 2000


In article <28755.954960812 at gromit.rfc1035.com>,
Jim Reid  <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Whitsett <mwhitset at phybertek.com> writes:
>
>    Mark> Chris, I can only assume you can't have two server bound to
>    Mark> the same service port.  The standard port for BIND is 53
>    Mark> which is the nameserver standard.  Running on anyother port
>    Mark> would be ridiculous.
>
>This is true but not the whole truth. It's perfectly possible to run
>two (or more) name server processes, each one listening on port 53 of
>a specific network interface.

You mean each named is listening on a *different* interface?

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