[stunnel-users] Problem with name resolving on Centos 7

Wed Feb 13 14:31:00 CET 2019

Ok, but in that case you should remove "delay = yes" and the hostname will
be resolved at startup, before chroot

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 1:23 PM Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 01:12:54PM +0100, Flo Rance wrote:
> > Regards,
> > Flo
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 1:00 PM tom <posturne at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > > Are you sure 'foobar.remote.site' should resolve?
> > > > Does "ping foobar.remote.site" work?
> > >
> > > yes, the host is resolved on commandline and other services on this
> > > system can reach this host.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Do you have a /var/run/stunnel/etc/resolv.conf file?
> > >
> > > No at this time I dont have this file, but it doesnt change anything
> > > if I copy the original from /etc to this lokation. But this brings me
> > > to the point try to dissable chroot and in this case stunnel is
> > > working as expected. So far so good - there is something wrong in the
> > > chroot jail.
> > >
> > > I try to put it to /var/run/stunnel - no luck, but maybe there are
> > > other files missing as well?
> >
> > If you want to resolv hostnames using resolv.conf file, you need the
> > appropriate library libresolv which is part of libc.
> > So you'll need to copy the libc librairies in your chroot environment.
>
> Mmm, I don't think that the resolver libraries are loaded dynamically;
> they are usually loaded in the stunnel binary at startup.
>
> However, tom, can you also try copying the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to
> the chroot?
>
> G'luck,
> Peter
>
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