HEADS UP: multi-IPv4/v6/no-IP jails now in 7-STABLE

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Wed Feb 11 14:35:10 PST 2009


On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Miroslav Lachman wrote:

> I have a question about INADDR_ANY in relation to new multi-IP jails.
> It was discussed some time ago as PR 84215 [wildcard ip (INADDR_ANY) should 
> not bind inside a jail] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84215 and 
> it seemed fixed, but manpage for jail is still saying:
>
> "Similarly, it might be a good idea to add an address alias flag such that 
> daemons listening on all IPs (INADDR_ANY) will not bind on that address, 
> which would facilitate building a safe host environment such that host 
> daemons do not impose on services offered from within jails."
>
> Can you please clarify the current state?

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jail/2008-November/000623.html

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