Jail resource limits

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Sun May 25 22:04:02 UTC 2008


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoffroy DESVERNAY" <dgeo at ec-marseille.fr>
>> This is something we're really looking forward to tbh a great
>> feature :) One of the reasons for this is hosting jails, with
>> the addition of multi IP support we will be able to enable
>> jails to connect to "backdoor" secure services such as a
>> mysql server.
>> 
> We are already doing this (sql on a separated(physical) LAN, but jail
> don't need a second interface for that: the real host's routing table is
> used for outgoing packets.
> Note we still need a static route on the SQL server for the packets to
> come back the same way
> 
> I still don't know if this behaviour is the better one (one may think
> that jail's packets should not go through different interface ?), but it
> works quite well ;)

Surely that compromises jail security i.e. being able to access
resources from the host box even it the jail has no perceivable
access to them?

I assume this still doesn't work if the server is in fact run on
the main host only running on localhost?

    Regards
    Steve

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