When someone says Bind an IP?

[TechBoyJK]

When someone says bind an IP to the server, is that the same thing as saying, give the server this IP address and make sure nothing else uses it? When I am given a block of IPs and I select one to assign it to a server and actually do it and set the server up to use that IP address, have I bound that IP to that server? I know what it means to BIND and I know BIND is also a DNS daemon, but I just want to make sure that I am not overcomplicating the issue.

 

[Nothinman]

Yea, I think you're just over thinking.

It could also be used in a multi-homed server, when adding another IP to the same NIC that hosts other IPs.

 

[TechBoyJK]

yea, i was overthinking, nice to get that one of my shoulders.

 

[Garion]

Bind means "to assign an IP address to an interface". There's also "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon" (BIND) , just to confuse things.

- G

 

[Nothinman]

And the bind() syscall to bind a socket descriptor to a real socket.