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Passing the hostname allows netavark to include it in DHCP lease
requests which, in an environment where DDNS is used, can cause
DNS entries to be created automatically.

* The current Hostname() function in container.go was updated to
check the new `use_container_name_as_hostname` option in the
CONTAINERS table of containers.conf.  If set and no hostname
was configured for the container, it causes the hostname to be
set to a version of the container's name with the characters not
valid for a hostname removed.  If not set (the default), the original
behavior of setting the hostname to the short container ID is
preserved.

* Because the Hostname() function can return the host's hostname
if the container isn't running in a private UTS namespace, and we'd
NEVER want to send _that_ in a DHCP request for a container, a new
function NetworkHostname() was added which functions like Hostname()
except that it will return an empty string instead of the host's
hostname if the container is not running in a private UTS namespace.

* networking_common.getNetworkOptions() now uses NetworkHostname()
to set the ContainerHostname member of the NetworkOptions structure.
That member was added to the structure in a corresponding commit in
common/libnetwork/types/network.go.

Signed-off-by: George Joseph <g.devel@wxy78.net>
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gtjoseph committed Nov 25, 2024
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60 changes: 59 additions & 1 deletion libpod/container.go
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Expand Up @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
"github.com/containers/podman/v5/libpod/define"
"github.com/containers/podman/v5/libpod/lock"
"github.com/containers/storage"
"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/regexp"
spec "github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/specs-go"
"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
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// Unlocked

// Hostname gets the container's hostname
func (c *Container) Hostname() string {
func (c *Container) ConfiguredHostname() string {
if c.config.UTSNsCtr != "" {
utsNsCtr, err := c.runtime.GetContainer(c.config.UTSNsCtr)
if err != nil {
Expand All @@ -680,6 +681,18 @@ func (c *Container) Hostname() string {
if c.config.Spec.Hostname != "" {
return c.config.Spec.Hostname
}
return ""
}

// Characters valid in a hostname are in the set [0-9a-zA-Z.-]
var invalidHostnameCharacters = regexp.Delayed("[^0-9a-zA-Z.-]")

// Hostname gets the container's hostname
func (c *Container) Hostname() string {
hostname := c.ConfiguredHostname()
if hostname != "" {
return hostname
}

// if the container is not running in a private UTS namespace,
// return the host's hostname.
Expand All @@ -690,6 +703,51 @@ func (c *Container) Hostname() string {
return hostname
}
}

// If use_container_name_as_hostname is set in the CONTAINERS table in containers.conf
// use a sanitized version of the container's name as the hostname.
if c.runtime.config.Containers.UseContainerNameAsHostName {
sanitizedHostname := invalidHostnameCharacters.ReplaceAllString(c.Name(), "")
return sanitizedHostname
}

// Otherwise use the container's short ID as the hostname.
if len(c.ID()) < 11 {
return c.ID()
}
return c.ID()[:12]
}

// If the container isn't running in a private UTS namespace, Hostname()
// will return the host's hostname as the container's hostname. If netavark
// were to try and obtain a DHCP lease with the host's hostname in an environment
// where DDNS was active, bad things could happen. NetworkHostname() on the
// other hand, will return an empty string if the container isn't running
// in a private UTS namespace.
//
// This function should only be used to populate the ContainerHostname member
// of the common.libnetwork.types.NetworkOptions struct.
func (c *Container) NetworkHostname() string {
hostname := c.ConfiguredHostname()
if hostname != "" {
return hostname
}

// if the container is not running in a private UTS namespace,
// return an empty string.
privateUTS := c.hasPrivateUTS()
if !privateUTS {
return ""
}

// If use_container_name_as_hostname is set in the CONTAINERS table in containers.conf
// use a sanitized version of the container's name as the hostname.
if c.runtime.config.Containers.UseContainerNameAsHostName {
sanitizedHostname := invalidHostnameCharacters.ReplaceAllString(c.Name(), "")
return sanitizedHostname
}

// Otherwise use the container's short ID as the hostname.
if len(c.ID()) < 11 {
return c.ID()
}
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7 changes: 4 additions & 3 deletions libpod/networking_common.go
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Expand Up @@ -55,9 +55,10 @@ func (c *Container) getNetworkOptions(networkOpts map[string]types.PerNetworkOpt
nameservers = append(nameservers, ip.String())
}
opts := types.NetworkOptions{
ContainerID: c.config.ID,
ContainerName: getNetworkPodName(c),
DNSServers: nameservers,
ContainerID: c.config.ID,
ContainerName: getNetworkPodName(c),
DNSServers: nameservers,
ContainerHostname: c.NetworkHostname(),
}
opts.PortMappings = c.convertPortMappings()

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