Can I run 2 named processes on the same machine?

Praveen Kumar Amritaluru praveen at india.hp.com
Thu Apr 6 16:58:29 UTC 2000


Mark Powell wrote:

> 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?

        There is an option called listen-on, which can be used to run two
nameservers
one listening on each interface in your case.

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