Re: [Vserver] Localhost in vserver: short questions

From: Alejandro Cabrera Obed <sisdis_at_tournet.com.ar>
Date: Tue 17 Oct 2006 - 14:45:24 BST
Message-ID: <4534DE74.7070104@tournet.com.ar>

People, I just want to know if there are any scenarios where it's
necessary the use of a like-localhost interface with IP 127.0.0.X/8 in
the vservers...or just mapping localhost to a non-routable IP it's
enough in order to run vservers without problems always ???

Thanks again.

Alejandro

Herbert Poetzl escribió:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 03:18:30PM -0300, Alejandro Cabrera Obed wrote:
>> (Sorry I write again becaause an error message)
>>
>> Dear all, I'm new at vservers so I was looking for some information
>> about the localhost interface problem. I mean that if I want to run a
>> service on localhost I have to bind localhost to the guest IP or to a
>> non-routable IP in the case I need a closed-service.
>>
>> Otherwhise I have localhost mapped to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts and I've
>> built the following interface under /etc/vservers/mine/0:
>>
>> nodev --- (empty)
>> ip ------ 127.0.0.1
>> mask ---- 255.0.0.0
>> prefix -- 8
>> name ---- localhost
>>
>> and when I ping this interface from my vserver's shell I get responses.
>>
>> So I have these two short questions:
>>
>> 1) Nowadays is it impossible to have a localhost/127.0.0.1 in the
>> vservers ???
>>
>> 2) In accordance with the ping to the localhost interface I built, the
>> localhost that responds is the one from the base host ???
>
> see answers to your previous email ...
> (maybe via the list archives)
>
> best,
> Herbert
>
>> Thanks a lot, greetings
>>
>> Alejandro
>>
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