Re: BIND doesn't listen to other loopback addresses

Ondřej Surý <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.dns.bind9.user
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> On 6. 7. 2025, at 2:35, Bagas Sanjaya <[email protected]> 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.

Ondrej
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