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All, |
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after discussions with several devs on irc about this issue, the |
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following change has been made in openrc-0.9.9 which was just released: |
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The loopback interface provides lo and *NOT* net. |
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All other network interfaces provide net. |
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For the categories given, this means the following: |
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On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 06:15:13PM -0500, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: |
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> 1. Services that connect to remote machines via any available network |
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> interface. |
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These should use or need net. |
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> 2. Services that listen to connections from remote machines on any |
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> available network interface, and run correctly even if no non-lo |
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> interfaces are up. |
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These should be changed to use or need lo. |
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> 3. Services that require a specific network interface, bind to a |
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> specific address, or connect to a specific machine on the local subnet. |
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These will have to be configured by the user with something like: |
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rc_use/need="!net net.iface" |
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Thanks, |
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William |