On Monday 18 December 2006 18:29, Bill Moran wrote: > > Item 1: Cause daemons to use a specific IP address to source communications > Origin: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 18 Dec 2006 > Status: > What: Cause Bacula daemons (dir, fd, sd) to always use the ip address > specified in the [DIR|DF|SD]Addr directive as the source IP > for initiating communication. > Why: On complex networks, as well as extremely secure networks, it's > not unusual to have multiple possible routes through the network. > Often, each of these routes is secured by different policies > (effectively, firewalls allow or deny different traffic depending > on the source address) > Unfortunately, it can sometimes be difficult or impossible to > represent this in a system routing table, as the result is > excessive subnetting that quickly exhausts available IP space. > The best available workaround is to provide multiple IPs to > a single machine that are all on the same subnet. In order > for this to work properly, applications must support the ability > to bind outgoing connections to a specified address, otherwise > the operating system will always choose the first IP that > matches the required route. > Notes: Many other programs support this. For example, the following > can be configured in BIND: > query-source address 10.0.0.1; > transfer-source 10.0.0.2; > Which means queries from this server will always come from > 10.0.0.1 and zone transfers will always originate from > 10.0.0.2.
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