interface-interval

[Mark Andrews]

> For BIND 9, Is there any particular reason that interface-interval is
> measured in minutes, rather than in seconds? Is this a particularly
> expensive operation? Are there any plans to add the ability to listen
> for interface changes on the routing socket or similar, for immediate
> changes?
> 
> There are two places where one really wants BIND to start listening on
> new interfaces as quickly as possible. One is when you unsuspend your
> laptop and DHCP a new address; it would be nice if one didn't have to
> restart BIND immediately after that.
	
	You don't. Just run rndc reconfig/reload.

> The other is on servers terminating
> VPN connections where you want the remote host to be using the BIND on
> that host because it's trusted and doing DNSSEC validation.

	This doesn't parse.

> Just as a side note, by the way, I'd like to thank the helpful experts
> on this list; it's one of the best I've seen in terms of providing
> helpful technical advice. Good work, guys.
> 
> cjs
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