linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Make containers kernel objects

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Message-ID: <2961.1495552481@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 16:14:41 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Aleksa Sarai <asarai@...e.de>,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        trondmy@...marydata.com, mszeredi@...hat.com,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, jlayton@...hat.com,
        Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Make containers kernel objects

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:

> > As an example, I could set up a client machine with two ethernet ports,
> > set up two DNS+NFS servers, each of which think they're called "foo.bar"
> > and attach each server to a different port on the client machine.  Then I
> > could create a pair of containers on the client machine and route the
> > network in each container to a different port.  Now there's a problem
> > because the names of the cached DNS records for each port overlap.
> 
> Please look at ip netns add.

	warthog>man ip | grep setns
	warthog1>

> It does solve this in userspace rather simply.

Ummm...  How?  The kernel DNS resolver is not namespace aware.

David