On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 10:58:44AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 03:22:04PM +0000, Castelli, Anton wrote:
> > David,
> > 
> > Thank you very much for the quick reply!
> > 
> > I tried querying the DNS with TCP and it worked correctly, using the
> > VRRP address in the reply packet. Unfortunately, UDP is the default
> > for DNS queries.
> 
> Right.
> 
> > Thanks for the advice about the options and the workaround. I had
> > just copied them from the Podman docs and modified them slightly. I
> > tried the '--publish 10.1.1.1:53:53/udp --publish
> > 10.1.1.2:53:53/udp' options, and it worked great on the primary
> > server that had the active VRRP address. I was able to query both
> > the regular and VRRP addresses and get a response. Unfortunately,
> > when I tried the same on the secondary server that doesn't have the
> > VRRP address, it refused to bind to the non-existent '10.1.1.2'
> > address.
> 
> Ah, right, of course.  I was just thinking about the primary, and
> didn't consider how the secondaries would also need to listen on that
> address at some future time.
> 
> > I tried with both the publish options and got an error (10.1.1.3 is
> > the regular IP of the secondary server).
> > 
> > --publish 10.1.1.3:53:53/udp --publish 10.1.1.2:53:53/udp
> > 
> > Error: unable to start container "XXXX": pasta failed with exit code 1:
> > Altering mapping of already mapped port number: 10.1.1.2/53-53:53-53
> 
> This looks like a different bug - although one that I think will be
> fixed by some work that's pretty close to the top of my queue.  It's
> not all that relevant for your case right now, because..

I just had a closer look at the code which produces this error.  The
error is not really correct here - it is a bug.  However, it's issued
as only a warning and I think this shouldn't actually break anything
for your situation (assuming we can work around the other issues).

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