Questions tagged [namespaces]

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Long pause when accessing DFS namespace

We've recently migrated our Windows network to use DFS for shared files. DFS is working well, except for one annoying problem: users experience a significant delay when they try to access a DFS namespace that they have not accessed for some time. I…
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Chrome under Docker: CAP_SYS_ADMIN vs privileged?

I am running chromedriver + chrome inside Docker in my test environment. Everything was working fine until latest CoreOS upgrade. These are the versions that seem to work: VERSION=1185.5.0 VERSION_ID=1185.5.0 BUILD_ID=2016-12-07-0937 And this a…
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How can I move an interface out of a network namespace?

If I move an interface temporarily into a netns with ip link set eth10 netns myns then it no longer is visible in the root, only within the namespace myns. How do I move it back, something like (these obviously don't exist): ip link unset eth10 or…
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Using namespaces in Powershell

Thought about it while answering this question. How can you avoid the need to fully qualify every single type in a namespace? It's really, really tedious to write System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Store instead of X509Store, or…
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Macvlan based interface pings from host but not from namespace

[EDIT] The production system is currently a mix physical and ESXi based system. We obviously would never use virtualbox even for a pre-production environment ! It was used here only to quickly narrow down the problem directly on my desktop. Thanks…
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How do I mount a private /proc inside a namespace inside a docker container?

I have a need to create namespaces inside a Docker container. And as part of this, I will need to mount a /proc private to the inner namespace. I realize that I will have to run the container with certain privileges to make this happen, but I would…
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Determine which DFS referral target a user is using

Our DFS namespace is set-up so that \\company.local\users is hosted on both a UK server and USA server with referral based upon the user's site. Works a treat except we suspect today, DFS failed over to the USA for some users. Only suspect because…
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Do Containers Have An OS?

I know that containers use the host's kernel and from what I understand , that's the reason we do not need an OS. My questions are (and I couldn't find any good explanation online) : 1) If that's the case , hoe do we get a shell prompt and how do…
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Cannot create nested network namespace

Is seems that one is not able to create a network namespace from a network namespace. It results in "Error: Peer netns reference is invalid.". Is this a bug or is there some kind of limitation that I am not aware of? Below is my cmd trace of the…
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Naming Convention for Virtual Machines

What is a good naming convention or scheme for a virtual machines? We are building a cluster of virtualization hardware servers in our headquarters and a similar cluster in each of our state offices (one cluster per state). We need to name the…
Mal
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Applying ACLs to a Dovecot public namespace

I would like to provide access to some mailing lists via a set of public, read-only mailboxes in Dovecot. I have a public namespace define in my dovecot (dovecot-2.0.9) configuration that looks like this: namespace { type = public separator =…
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Access another process's mount namespace

Is there a way to inspect the files and directories of another mount namespace? setns(2) syscall appears to be able to move a thread to another namespace, but if this functionality is not already built in to a program (a shell, fileserver, ..), it…
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how to prevent direct access to DFS Namespace shared folders

I have made a DFS Namespace named \\dc1\bank. There are some other folders from another file servers(for example \\dc1\bank\folder1 is the folder on \\fs1\folder1). I want to restrict users to direct access to folders on the other file servers (for…
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Linux list all network namespaces

I want to list all the network namespaces on my Linux machine. So far I found two recommended ways to do this: ip netns list And lsns --type=net Unfortunately both commands do not list all the namespaces! The first only lists the namespaces found…
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Linode hosting & Godaddy

I have registered a domain name with godaddy.com, also I have rented out hosting space at Linode.com Linode has given me a permanent IP. How do I link this IP to the domain name at godaddy.com ?
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