On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Nils Breunese <[email protected]> wrote:
> It might be pretty confusing if the A record changed after the last time > the server was started. I've never seen a daemon allowing you to bind to a > hostname. Also, what happens when your resolver is down? CouchDB can't > start? > > But yeah, it could be implemented I guess. > For the machines I run, I set up different hostnames in /etc/hosts for the external and internal interface, so if I have to move it (for whatever arcane reason), I can make one change and have all the binded addresses change as well. (I use DNS to change the A records so that external clients can find it, but that's a different problem) best, Andrew > > Nils. > ________________________________________ > Van: Noah Slater [[email protected]] > Verzonden: maandag 21 juni 2010 19:08 > Aan: [email protected] > Onderwerp: Re: Crash: Ip or Hostname as bind_address > > On 21 Jun 2010, at 17:38, Sebastian Cohnen wrote: > > > you cannot bind a server to a hostname and it does not make much sense at > all to try. > > Makes sense to me. What's the problem with resolving the hostname at bind > time? > > De informatie vervat in deze e-mail en meegezonden bijlagen is uitsluitend > bedoeld voor gebruik door de geadresseerde en kan vertrouwelijke informatie > bevatten. Openbaarmaking, vermenigvuldiging, verspreiding en/of verstrekking > van deze informatie aan derden is voorbehouden aan geadresseerde. De VPRO > staat niet in voor de juiste en volledige overbrenging van de inhoud van een > verzonden e-mail, noch voor tijdige ontvangst daarvan. > -- -- Andrew Melo
