Re: Binding inetd to ip

From: dwelchat_private
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 22:36:29 PST

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    On Tue, 25 January 2000, Nicholas Tang wrote:
    
    
    > Is it possible to bind inetd to a specific ip address/ethernet card under
    > linux?  I haven't been able to find any info myself, but the reason I
    > ask is because I currently am running a nameserver that has two network
    > cards.
    
    Probably not without hacking inetd. I belive it does a bind to 0.0.0.0, which effectively means "bind to all IPs on the system." You'd have to change it to bind to a specific interface, which is probably not all that difficult to do.
    
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