outgoing-interface with dhcp

[Louis Garcia]

Ok, thanks.


On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 5:40 PM Tom Samplonius <tom at samplonius.org> wrote:
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>   You may not need to use outgoing-interface at all.  If your DHCP-client adds a default route over the WAN interface, then that is the interface used for outgoing requests.
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>   outgoing-interface is most useful, if you want to use some other source IP, other than the actual outgoing (default route) interface, like a loopback address.  Or if your WAN interface doesn’t have a routable IP, or something.
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> Tom
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> > On Apr 13, 2021, at 1:51 PM, Louis Garcia via Unbound-users <unbound-users at lists.nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
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> > The system that unbound runs on has 4 nics. nic1 is the wan port to
> > the internet with an ip address that comes from dhcp. How can I tell
> > unbound to send queries to wan0 if the ip changes?
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> > outgoing-interface only takes ip addresses not ports. It would be nice
> > if I can have outgoing-interface: wan0
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> > I guess I can make a script but for now I comment this out.
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> > Thanks, Louis
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