Re: NBD 3.23

[Andreas Schneider <asn@redhat.com>]

On Tuesday, November 16, 2021 3:41:44 PM CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 12:09:28PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > There was a small but crucial bug in NBD 3.22, which meant that the
> > client would only connect to localhost (🤦). I've uploaded a new version
> > of NBD to the usual spot to fix that issue.
> > 
> > If anyone can come up with a good way to test that nbd-client actually
> > connects to a host that is *not* localhost which we can add to the test
> > suite, that'd be nice :) otherwise, I'll try to remember to test this
> > manually from now on.
> 
> If you don't mind another dependency (which I think is probably OK for
> tests, but make it optional!) then cwrap can do this, specifically I
> think you need nss_wrapper.
> 
> https://cwrap.org/
> https://lwn.net/Articles/594863/
> 
> Fedora package:
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nss_wrapper
> 
> Debian package:
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/libnss-wrapper

I think you want socket_wrapper and nss_wrapper. socket_wrapper is the tool to 
create the network, nss_wrapper for name resolution :-)

Best regards


	Andreas