Re: network namespace and DNS lookups

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 10:49 -0500, Ravi Aysola wrote:
> I think I sent my earlier email a bit prematurely.  I do have
> /etc/netns/<namespace-name>/resolv.conf
> files under each of my namespaces. Now the question is, how does a
> user space process
> (say bind)  look at a namespace specific resolv.conf instead of
> default one?  Have any of
> these standard applications been modified to work with namespace
> specific config files?

Wouldn't that be the glibc resolver's domain?  DNS lookups aren't done
by the kernel, but by glibc in userspace.  And glibc is also what reads
resolv.conf, so most things DNS-namespace related would need to happen
there.

Dan

> thanks again
> ravi/
> 
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Ravi Aysola <ravi.mlists@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has there been any work in any of the recent kernels to limit the DNS lookup
> > to a particular network namespace?  Do we have any facility to specify the
> > DNS resolvers on network namespace basis (such as /etc/ns/resolv.conf)?
> >
> > thank you
> > ravi/
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