From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>,
Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Improve NFS use of network and mount namespaces
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:04:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m13ab97trc.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242172010.5407.79.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> (Trond Myklebust's message of "Tue\, 12 May 2009 19\:46\:50 -0400")
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> writes:
> Finally, what happens if someone decides to set up a private socket
> namespace, using CLONE_NEWNET, without also using CLONE_NEWNS to create
> a private mount namespace? Would anyone have even the remotest chance in
> hell of figuring out what filesystem is mounted where in the ensuing
> chaos?
Good question. Multiple NFS servers with the same ip address reachable
from the same machine sounds about as nasty pickle as it gets.
The only way I can even imagine a setup like that is someone connecting
to a vpn. So they are behind more than one NAT gateway.
Bleh NAT sucks.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-13 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-12 21:51 [RFC][PATCH] Improve NFS use of network and mount namespaces Matt Helsley
2009-05-12 22:18 ` Chuck Lever
2009-05-12 23:46 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-05-13 0:04 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2009-05-13 0:13 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-05-13 0:44 ` Matt Helsley
2009-05-13 1:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-13 0:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-13 1:05 ` Matt Helsley
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