On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:50:51PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 29 May 2008 15:56:50 > +0100 (BST)): > >> On Thu, 29 May 2008, Michael Reifenberger wrote: >> >>> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 03:14:20PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: ... >>>> The other concept that might be of benefit is a "dead" jail vs. a "live" >>>> jail -- with TCP connections taking a while to run down, there can often >>>> be dangling jail references that don't garbage collect for a few >>>> minutes. Perhaps, where there is ambiguity, live jails (ones with >>>> referencing processes) should be preferred to dead ones. >>> >>> Thats something that the admin should take care for. >> >> How might they do that? Remember that any command that works only when >> the jail IP is "unambiguous" will become effectively non-deterministic as >> a result of un-garbage collected jails. So > > Is it feasible to change the hostname of a dying jail? We could prefix it > with some string at some point of the shutdown...
We'd be better off just dropping all the connections at that point.
Ceri
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