[CentOS] control outgoing IP address?
Bill Campbell
centos at celestial.com
Tue Jun 17 23:03:53 UTC 2008
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I'd like to consolidate some services that have been assigned by IP
> (dns, syslog etc.) onto one machine by giving it IP aliases to accept
> connections for the old addresses until all the references are fixed.
> However, I'd like to have it use it's original IP as the source for
> outbound connections. Where do you control that?
That depends on the application. You can specify the outgoing IP address
for postfix with ``smtp_bind_address'' in main.cf. The inn NNTP server
uses ``sourceaddress'' in the inn.conf file, etc.
Bill
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