Bug#381451: [Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#381451: snmpconf tells you not the truth about interface binding

[Hilmar Preusse]

On 10.08.06 Jochen Friedrich (jochen at scram.de) wrote:

Hi Jochen,

> > I'm not sure if this is function as designed. For now I blame the
> > script to tell me not the truth when creating the configuration.
> 
> The script is right. Currently, snmpd is limited to 127.0.0.1 using
> the command line defined in /etc/default/snmpd. Please see
> /usr/share/doc/snmpd/NEWS.Debian.gz.
> 
Hmm, you're right. I'm sorry! Is there a special reason for that?
AFAICT it does not make that much sense to run an snmp agent, which
does not listen on an external interface.

H.
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