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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!wa.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!nsw.news.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!walkabout!imb From: imb@walkabout.asstdc.com.au (michael butler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: named on a virtual IP interface Date: 19 Aug 1996 07:09:00 GMT Organization: Assorted C Software Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4v93uc$n9r@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> References: <ulfDwA1EJ.KHB@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: walkabout.asstdc.com.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ulf Schmidt (ulf@netcom.com) wrote: : Hi, : I am having some problems with FreeBSD (2.1.5R) and virtual IPs. : I set a virtual IP interface like this: : ifconfig de0 194.64.170.15 alias netmask 0xffffffff : Problems: : - I can't delete this interface. I studied the man pages for ifconfig, : but everytime I try to delete the alias I delete the entiere interface, : so I have to reconfigure at the computers terminal. 'ifconfig de0 inet 194.64.170.15 -alias' will remove the alias. : - I can't find any command which lists all the alias interfaces. : ifconfig -au doesn't show them 'netstat -in' does this. : - web servers work fine on virtual IPs, but I can't get bind to work on : a virtual IP. So I can ping the virtual interface, but a dns request : times out. you need 'route add 194.64.170.15 localhost' Note that named scans the interfaces at start-up and not afterward (unlike gated) so the alias must be there before it's started .. else 'ndc restart', michael