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Re: Testing on hosts with firewalls
- From: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- To: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 10:23:19 -0800
- Subject: Re: Testing on hosts with firewalls
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- References: <b5618713-58ee-4b64-4f6f-4722818af73a@redhat.com> <20161229180613.GD16617@vapier>
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> does it help if you run all the tests in a unique net namespace ?
> i think our skel test framework should set up unique namespaces
> all the time anyways to prevent inadvertent leakage, and to handle
> issues like port collisions.
I agree in principle, but:
- can that be done without root privileges?
- beware https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97811
zw