RE: Binding inetd to ip

["Ewing, Timothy K." <Timothy.Ewing () celera com>]

> > Is it possible to bind inetd to a specific ip address/ethernet card under
> > linux?  I haven't been able to find any info myself, but the reason I
> > ask is because I currently am running a nameserver that has two network
> > cards.

> Probably not without hacking inetd. I belive it does a bind to 0.0.0.0,
which effectively >means "bind to all IPs on the system." You'd have to
change it to bind to a specific >interface, which is probably not all that
difficult to do.

I was faced with a similar problem/desire on a home firewall (Linux RH 6.1
and TIS FWTK) 
and I remember reading about a program several years ago (the development of
it has picked
up lately) called xinetd.  Xinetd uses a file called xinetd.conf and has a
little script called "itox" to convert inetd.conf syntax to xinetd.conf
syntax.  It is used to bind 
specific services to IP addresses.  So for example I have all my proxies for
the FWTK bound
to the internal interface, and nothing for the external.  Go the following
site to get 
source and information.

        http://synack.net/xinetd

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