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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:24:02 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r195944 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <20090729181634.E245@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A70813A.6020502@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200907291641.n6TGf2mb076622@svn.freebsd.org> <4A707DF5.5050108@errno.com> <4A70813A.6020502@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Jamie Gritton wrote:

Hi,

let me add a few words.

> Sam Leffler wrote:
>> Jamie Gritton wrote:
>>> Author: jamie
>>> Date: Wed Jul 29 16:41:02 2009
>>> New Revision: 195944
>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/195944
>>> 
>>> Log:
>>>   Change the default value of the "ip4" and "ip6" jail parameters to
>>>   "disable", which only allows access to the parent/physical system's
>>>   IP addresses when specifically directed.  Change the default value of
>>>   "host" to "new", and don't copy the parent host values, to insulate
>>>   jails from the parent hostname et al.
>> 
>> This does not say why you're making these changes; please explain.
>
> My apologies.  The ip4/6 change fixed an error with the old-style
> command line of jail(8), where specifying IPv4 address(es) but not IPv6
> addresses would allow access to the full IPv6 stack, a regression from
> 7.2 which allows only specifically noted IPv6 addresses.

And vice versa for IPv6 only jails and also with no-IP jails where
addresses of both AFs were inherited rather than denied.

This behaviour is actually needed to not break lots of jail setups
with mostly Java[1] and some other apps that have strange defaults and
`understandings' of what dual-stack or socket operations in one of
those means.

It's bascically reverting to the old or rather expected defaults of a
jail so that jails can continue to run 1:1 when upgrading from 7 to 8.
At least hoping most (all) things are shaken out now with regard to
this. In case you know anything that doesn't work as expected, now
would be a good time to tell us.

/bz


[1] http://diario.behrens.de/2008/10/12/java_and_ipv6_on_bsd.html

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb                      The greatest risk is not taking one.



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