Binding services to multipul IP addresses

[tommywds]

Hi there Guys

I'm really hoping that someone will be able to help me out today!

Please go easy on me, I'm quite new to Linux!!!

I have a server with 4 IP addresses and a number of services, but I only want them to run on 3 of the IP addresses. Please could anyone suggest how to configure the following services.

Apache - Done
MySQL
Q-Mail
BIND
Courier-IMAP - Both POP and IMAP

I have taken a look at qmail and everything I have found on the web doesn't appear right to me...
Courier looks like I can only bind it to one IP address (but I could be doing something wrong) This is the same for MySQL.
BIND just confuses me!

Thanks a million in advance!!!

[bpmee]

Hi,

This might help, it describes how to BIND multiple IPs to a single NIC.

It is fairly easy to do, just make sure that you have correctly named and created the required number of eth0:x addresses.

http://www.xenocafe.com/tutorials/linux/redhat/bind_multiple_ip_addresses_to_single_nic/index.php

Note, this is for Redhat Linux, but may work on other systems - but I'm not sure...

I posted this in the "Suggest How-tos" section also.

Once you BIND your IPs, follow the "Perfect setup" for your particular OS. This should help set things up for you...

Good luck....:cool:

[falko]

Courier looks like I can only bind it to one IP address (but I could be doing something wrong) This is the same for MySQL.
BIND just confuses me!

Courier, MySQL, and BIND should listen on all IP addresses (that should be the default, except for MySQL - on Debian, for example, it listens on 127.0.0.1 only unless you configure it to listen on all IPs).