Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 16:43:49 -0700 From: Anthony Fleisher <fleisher@mind.net> To: us@microtronic.de Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: virtual IPs - more specific question Message-ID: <2.2.32.19961001234349.00a05944@mind.net>
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At 12:32 PM 8/17/96 +0200, you wrote: >Hi, >I now know that a named works on a virtual IP. At least it does under >Linux if I configure the interface as follows (on Linux 2.0.7): >/sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 x.x.x.x netmask 255.255.255.192 broadcast 194.64.170.63 >/sbin/route add -host 194.64.170.41 dev eth0:0 > >Unfortunatly, I can't get this IP aliasing to work under FreeBSD. If I try >to set an alias w/ FreeBSD and specify a netmask other than 0xffffffff, I >get: ># ifconfig de0 194.64.170.16 alias netmask 0xffffffc0 >ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists ># ifconfig de0 194.64.170.16 alias netmask 0xffffffff >works fine, but then a named won't respond on that interface. > I believe that you need to kill named and restart it AFTER the interface is aliased. We had named setup on a box with several aliases, and it responded to requests on all of them. >I would like to stick to FreeBSD for our DNS, so maybe you have a >solution. > >Thanks, Ulf Schmidt > no prob. Regards, ----------------------------------------------- Anthony Fleisher <fleisher@mind.net> System Administrator InfoStructure Ashland, Oregon Voice: (541)488-1962 Fax: (541)488-7599 -----------------------------------------------
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