BIND doesn't listen to other loopback addresses

Bagas Sanjaya bagasdotme at gmail.com
Sun Jul 6 06:41:58 UTC 2025


On 7/6/25 13:02, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> On 6. 7. 2025, at 2:35, Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It seems like BIND only listen to addresses that are assigned to existing
>> network devices, no?
> 
> The thread got little bit muddled, but basically the answer is: yes, that’s right.
> 
> The IPv4 loopback is actually quite weird in this regard that 127.0.0.1/8 is assigned by everything in 127/8 automagically works without explicit address assigned to the interface.
> 

Here in my case, I was expecting BIND to listen to 127.0.0.53 as 
separate address, just like in similar applications (systemd-resolved,
dnsdist, etc).

Thanks.

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