[863] in Zephyr_Bugs
Re: Question about multi-homed machines...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Jun 18 07:26:21 1997
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 07:26:17 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Robert Tommaselli" <rtommase@fir.fbc.com>, bug-zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[862] in Zephyr_Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
| This is a long-standing known bug. There aren't any particularly good
| workarounds, unfortunately (other than setting the machine's hostname
| to something that resolves to the interface address used to talk to
| the server).
And the potentially wasteful (of addresing) solution of assigning
a numbered loopback to all such multihomed machines and modifying
applications, such as zephyr, to bind to such a numbered loopback.
Actually, it ocurrs to me that another solution would be to modify the
C librarie's bind() call, at least for those applications that use
dynamic linking...
One would expect this problem to be an issue for multiple software
packages...
--jhawk
