My Introduction and current issues -

[Nick Tait]

On 11/05/2025 17:17, Fred Morris wrote:
> BIND insists on addresses bound to interfaces (at least, that's my 
> contention, based on experience yesterday, which may or may not 
> reflect some reality which has been manufactured today).
>
> resolved uses a loopback address which is not bound to an interface 
> (at least that's my experience, which may or may not reflect some 
> reality which has been manufactured today).
>
> Nick, I'll ask before the fold: how do I explicitly bind 127.0.0.53 to 
> the lo interface before systemd starts? 

I'm not sure why you would even want to do that? It will only create 
confusion about which process is servicing DNS requests sent to 
127.0.0.53. What are you attempting to achieve by doing that?

Nick.