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Date:      29 Sep 2004 09:26:07 -0400
From:      Dan Pelleg <daniel+bsd@pelleg.org>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Peter Schultz <pete@beforever.com>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: named now runs chroot'ed by default
Message-ID:  <u2ssm91mck0.fsf@lark.auton.cs.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040928142532.M90002@qbhto.arg>
References:  <20040928025635.Q5094@ync.qbhto.arg> <727FCC18-1156-11D9-BBA6-000D936BE398@beforever.com> <20040928142532.M90002@qbhto.arg>

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Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Peter Schultz wrote:
> 
> > Why not do it FreeBSD style and auto-jail named?
> 
> The simplest answer is that not every host can burn (or even obtain) an
> extra IP address for the jail. It's also questionable what additional
> benefit would be obtained.
> 

Benefit question aside, it's possible to run the jail on a RFC1918 address,
and run NAT on the host to make that fact transparent. A ugly hack, but it
definitely works.

-- 

  Dan Pelleg



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