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.TH "COREDNS\-BIND" "7" "March 2018" "CoreDNS" "CoreDNS plugins"
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.SH "NAME"
\fIbind\fR \- overrides the host to which the server should bind\.
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
Normally, the listener binds to the wildcard host\. However, you may want the listener to bind to another IP instead\.
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.P
If several addresses are provided, a listener will be open on each of the IP provided\.
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.P
Each address has to be an IP of one of the interfaces of the host\.
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.SH "SYNTAX"
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.nf

bind ADDRESS  \.\.\.
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.fi
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.P
\fBADDRESS\fR is an IP address to bind to\. When several addresses are provided a listener will be opened on each of the addresses\.
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.SH "EXAMPLES"
To make your socket accessible only to that machine, bind to IP 127\.0\.0\.1 (localhost):
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.IP "" 4
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.nf

\&\. {
    bind 127\.0\.0\.1
}
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.fi
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.IP "" 0
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.P
To allow processing DNS requests only local host on both IPv4 and IPv6 stacks, use the syntax:
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.IP "" 4
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.nf

\&\. {
    bind 127\.0\.0\.1 ::1
}
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.fi
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.IP "" 0
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.P
If the configuration comes up with several \fIbind\fR directives, all addresses are consolidated together: The following sample is equivalent to the preceding:
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.IP "" 4
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.nf

\&\. {
    bind 127\.0\.0\.1
    bind ::1
}
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.fi
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.IP "" 0