Re: bind(2)ing to specific network interfaces/IP #s (ITS#588)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

1.2 is feature frozen, 2.0-devel already supports such.
As such, we've haven't committed contributed patches
that add such features to 1.x.  You may.  See ITS#519
and ITS#534

At 12:04 PM 6/12/00 GMT, albert@friendly.net wrote:
>Full_Name: Albert Siersema
>Version: 1.2.10
>OS: Linux (kernel 2.2.15)
>URL: 
>Submission from: (NULL) (193.172.48.10)
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>My issue is more of a request than a real bug.
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>I'd like to see an option in OpenLDAP (specifically slapd in my case)
>to only bind() to a user configurable interface/IP number. If possible
>a set of them.
>I glanced from daemon.c that currently all interfaces on a given host are used:
> addr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
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>For some gateway machines it's useful to bind only to the 'inside' network card
>or for the truly paranoid to 127.0.0.1 only (assuming only local processes
>access 
>the directory of course).
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