nsd users - Feb 2005 - parse error when specifying more than 8 ip's on command line

If I try and specify more than 8 IP's to bind to on the command line,
I get a parse error.  Example:

./nsd -a 127.0.0.1 -a 127.0.0.2 -a 127.0.0.3 -a 127.0.0.4 -a 127.0.0.5
-a 127.0.0.6 -a 127.0.0.7 -a 127.0.0.8

works fine

./nsd -a 127.0.0.1 -a 127.0.0.2 -a 127.0.0.3 -a 127.0.0.4 -a 127.0.0.5
-a 127.0.0.6 -a 127.0.0.7 -a 127.0.0.8 -a 127.0.0.9
nsd: error: cannot parse address '127.0.0.1'

so you can see the parse problem. Any thoughts?  Please CC me on the response.

Thanks!

MAX_INTERFACES is set to 8 in configure.ac, so it's a compiled in limit.
You can manually edit config.h between the configure and make stages if
you'd like more than 8 interfaces.

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:38:17AM -0800, Sean Leach
wrote:
> If I try and specify more than 8 IP's to bind to on the command line,
> I get a parse error.  Example:
> 
> ./nsd -a 127.0.0.1 -a 127.0.0.2 -a 127.0.0.3 -a 127.0.0.4 -a 127.0.0.5
> -a 127.0.0.6 -a 127.0.0.7 -a 127.0.0.8
> 
> works fine
> 
> ./nsd -a 127.0.0.1 -a 127.0.0.2 -a 127.0.0.3 -a 127.0.0.4 -a 127.0.0.5
> -a 127.0.0.6 -a 127.0.0.7 -a 127.0.0.8 -a 127.0.0.9
> nsd: error: cannot parse address '127.0.0.1'
> 
> so you can see the parse problem. Any thoughts?  Please CC me on the
response.
> 
> Thanks!
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On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:38:17AM -0800, Sean Leach wrote:

| If I try and specify more than 8 IP's to bind to on the command line,
| I get a parse error.  Example:
| 
| ./nsd -a 127.0.0.1 -a 127.0.0.2 -a 127.0.0.3 -a 127.0.0.4 -a 127.0.0.5
| -a 127.0.0.6 -a 127.0.0.7 -a 127.0.0.8
| 
| works fine
| 
| ./nsd -a 127.0.0.1 -a 127.0.0.2 -a 127.0.0.3 -a 127.0.0.4 -a 127.0.0.5
| -a 127.0.0.6 -a 127.0.0.7 -a 127.0.0.8 -a 127.0.0.9
| nsd: error: cannot parse address '127.0.0.1'
| 
| so you can see the parse problem. Any thoughts?  Please CC me on the response.

I'm assuming you used redundant 127/8 addresses to not divulge your real
addresses.

There is a hard coded limit of 8 addresses.  You can modify the source to
get more.  Or you can just run multiple instances of nsd.  Since the -a
option is on the command line, that's quite easy to do.  You might even
get a bit faster performance that way.

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