Merge lp://staging/~niedbalski/ubuntu/vivid/rpcbind/fix-lp-1430181 into lp://staging/ubuntu/vivid/rpcbind

Proposed by Jorge Niedbalski
Status: Work in progress
Proposed branch: lp://staging/~niedbalski/ubuntu/vivid/rpcbind/fix-lp-1430181
Merge into: lp://staging/ubuntu/vivid/rpcbind
Diff against target: 274 lines (+254/-0)
3 files modified
debian/changelog (+8/-0)
debian/patches/rcpbind-tcp-bind-specific-addrs.patch (+245/-0)
debian/patches/series (+1/-0)
To merge this branch: bzr merge lp://staging/~niedbalski/ubuntu/vivid/rpcbind/fix-lp-1430181
Reviewer Review Type Date Requested Status
Ubuntu branches Pending
Review via email: mp+253260@code.staging.launchpad.net

Description of the change

[Description]

There is no way to prevent rpcbind from listening on all interfaces for TCP connections. The setting "-h" only applies to UDP connections.

Without this patch, starting rpcbind with -h makes no effect to listen on a specific address:

$ rpcbind -h 192.168.100.2

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 22011/rpcbind
tcp6 0 0 :::111 :::* LISTEN 22011/rpcbind
udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:111 0.0.0.0:* 22011/rpcbind
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:986 0.0.0.0:* 22011/rpcbind
udp6 0 0 ::1:111 :::* 22011/rpcbind
udp6 0 0 :::986 :::* 22011/rpcbind

With this patch, starting rpcbind with -h makes effect to listen to a specific address

$ rpcbind -h 192.168.100.2

tcp 0 0 192.168.100.2:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 24826/rpcbind
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 24826/rpcbind
tcp6 0 0 ::1:111 :::* LISTEN 24826/rpcbind

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

I'm not sure this is appropriate to land at this point in the cycle, or in its current form, so I've made general review comments in the bug instead of here.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

settings as "work in progress" rather than "needs review", seems it needs more work/discussion and is not ready for sponsoring

Unmerged revisions

43. By Jorge Niedbalski

debian/patches/rcpbind-tcp-bind-specific-addrs.patch: Make it possible
for rpcbind(8) to bind TCP listening socket to an IP other than INADDR_ANY.
Fixes Bug LP: #1430181.

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