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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2021-05-26 11:10:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2021-05-26 12:45:20 +0100 |
| commit | 74c88a25203e7db293ca7a1c31b789e6558129fd (patch) | |
| tree | c947b6023c3d655c885b0a3743d9e45d63bd6be9 /man/nss-mymachines.xml | |
| parent | 7dbc38db509f153256d3a3bfe6cbb26e2731c741 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-74c88a25203e7db293ca7a1c31b789e6558129fd.tar.gz | |
man: try to clarify that nss-mymachines does not provide name resolution outside its own scope
Fixes: #18229
Diffstat (limited to 'man/nss-mymachines.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/nss-mymachines.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/nss-mymachines.xml b/man/nss-mymachines.xml index 03fcd4308e..baec10954b 100644 --- a/man/nss-mymachines.xml +++ b/man/nss-mymachines.xml @@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ Note that the name that is resolved is the one registered with <command>systemd-machined</command>, which may be different than the hostname configured inside of the container.</para> + <para>Note that this NSS module only makes available names of the containers running immediately below + the current system context. It does not provide host name resolution for containers running side-by-side + with the invoking system context, or containers further up or down the container hierarchy. Or in other + words, on the host system it provides host name resolution for the containers running immediately below + the host environment. When used inside a container environment however, it will not be able to provide + name resolution for containers running on the host (as those are siblings and not children of the current + container environment), but instead only for nested containers running immediately below its own + container environment.</para> + <para>To activate the NSS module, add <literal>mymachines</literal> to the line starting with <literal>hosts:</literal> in <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename>.</para> |