Multiple instances of BIND at startup
Matthew Seaman
m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Wed May 21 17:19:35 UTC 2008
Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am attempting to configure a BIND 9 name server that will be
> authoritative for certain domains which will listen exclusively on IPv6.
>
> This same box will also be a caching server for a handful of networks
> (IPv6 and IPv4).
>
> The way I have it set up is that the authoritative and caching services
> each run a single instance of BIND on it's own IP address, with both
> instances each doing exactly what they are supposed to do.
>
> However, how can I make the FreeBSD (7.0) startup scripts load both
> instances of BIND, each with it's own configuration?
>
> I've read through the Administrators handbook for BIND and numerous
> newsgroup postings about 'views', but I don't think this is what I want.
> It seems 'views' are more for split-DNS, segregating internal access and
> external access to the same service. That is not what I am after.
>
> Any pointers much appreciated.
I did something very similar. Run one of the bind instances in a jail --
especially with a little firewall rdr rules and similar trickery to redirect
traffic into the appropriate instance (which gets you past the lack of IPv6
support in jail(8)). Works beautifully.
Cheers,
Matthew
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