BIND doesn't listen to other loopback addresses

Bagas Sanjaya bagasdotme at gmail.com
Sun Jul 6 23:54:41 UTC 2025


On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 08:10:58PM +0200, Bjørn Mork via bind-users wrote:
> Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> You do need to add the address to an interface, but you don't need to
> add a new dummy interface.  This will make your config work too:
> 
>  ip addr add 127.0.0.53 dev lo
> 
> It doesn't matter that lo already is configured with 127.0.0.1/8.  You
> can still add specific /32s within the same prefix.

That override won't persist across reboots, though, in my case (I'm using
NetworkManager).

Thanks.

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