[Bug 871143] Re: Unable to bind ietd to specific address and port

[harmscon]

I have the same requirement: only bind a specific address.
I took a very similar approach to resolve:

Add the following to /etc/defaults/iscsitarget:
## ietd options
# --address: bind to specific interface
ISCSITARGET_OPTIONS='--address=10.224.10.1'

Make the following change to function ietd_start() in
/etc/init.d/iscsitarget:

< 	start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON -- $ISCSITARGET_OPTIONS
---
> 	start-stop-daemon --start --exec $DAEMON --quiet --oknodo

I hope this helps.

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Title:
  Unable to bind ietd to specific address and port

Status in “iscsitarget” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  It is possible to bind the iscsitarget daemon (ietd) to a specific IP
  address and port number, but only by using the --address and --port
  command-line options: there is no way to do so in the configuration
  file. The /etc/init.d/iscsitarget script should therefore enable the
  administrator access to these options.

  My proposal is to append "-- $IETD_ARGS" to the start-stop-daemon line
  in ietd_start() (as well as IETD_ARGS= earlier-on), so that it becomes
  possible to set this variable in /etc/default/iscsitarget.

  I have made the above changes locally, but now run the risk that if
  the /etc/init.d/iscsitarget script is overwritten upon a future
  upgrade by ietd daemon will revert to its default behaviour, which is
  to listen on all IP addresses and well-known port 3260. This is a
  security problem for me, and, I submit, generically.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: iscsitarget 1.4.20.2-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Oct  9 08:45:49 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: iscsitarget
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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