Comment 8 for bug 604283
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: network servers do not listen on 127.0.1.1 | #8 |
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I don't believe there's any bug in ifupdown here. As mentioned in the upstream Debian bug, you do not need an explicit 127.0.1.1 network interface to receive requests on that address, *as long as* you are listening on the "any" address. This is indeed what openssh is doing by default; being able to ssh to 127.0.1.1 has nothing to do with any ifupdown changes.
Out of the many services I run, the only ones I find that have problems with 127.0.1.1 are bind, ntpd, and nmbd. nmbd is entirely uninteresting, because it's only relevant on broadcast interfaces (which is part of why it must bind by IP). ntpd's behavior could be considered a bug, as could bind9. Since you mention bind9 explicitly, I think reassigning this report to the bind9 package is the reasonable course of action here.