[systemd-devel] Networking in a systemd-nspawn container

[Tobias Hunger]

Hello Systemd Mailing List!

I have a laptop and run a couple of systemd-nspawn containers on that
machine. This works great, except that name resolution insode the
containers fails whenever the network on the outside changes.

This is not too surprising: At setup time the resolver information is
copied into the containers and never updated. That is sup-optimal for
my laptop that I keep moving between networks.

I have been wondering: Would it be possible to forward the containers
resolver to the host machine resolver somehow?

Could e.g. systemd-nspawn optionally make the hosts resolver available
in the containers network namespace? Maybe by setting up some port
forwarding or by putting a socket into the container somewhere?

Any ideas? I can do some of the work with a bit of guidance.

Best Regards,
Tobias