Multiple instances of BIND at startup

[Matthew Seaman]

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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