From: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:55:38 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: untested: ditch the many years of buggy systemd JoinsNamespaceOf
X-Git-Url: https://iankelling.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e13c468d85a1bcfe31ca92e8a7bdcf1eea9d81c0;p=distro-setup

untested: ditch the many years of buggy systemd JoinsNamespaceOf
---

diff --git a/mail-setup b/mail-setup
index 8aed1c4..8ded245 100755
--- a/mail-setup
+++ b/mail-setup
@@ -773,13 +773,11 @@ case $HOSTNAME in
     u /etc/systemd/system/wg-quick@wgmail.service.d/override.conf <<EOF
 [Unit]
 Requires=mailnn.service
-JoinsNamespaceOf=mailnn.service
 BindsTo=mailnn.service
 StartLimitIntervalSec=0
 
 [Service]
-ExecStartPre=/usr/local/bin/joins-namespace-of-check mailnn
-PrivateNetwork=true
+NetworkNamespacePath=/var/run/netns/mail
 # i dont think we need any of these, but it doesnt hurt to stay consistent
 BindPaths=$bindpaths
 
@@ -800,7 +798,6 @@ Documentation=man:openvpn(8)
 Documentation=https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Openvpn24ManPage
 Documentation=https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/HOWTO
 # needed to continually restatr
-JoinsNamespaceOf=mailnn.service
 BindsTo=mailnn.service
 StartLimitIntervalSec=0
 
@@ -809,13 +806,12 @@ Type=notify
 RuntimeDirectory=openvpn-client
 RuntimeDirectoryMode=0710
 WorkingDirectory=/etc/openvpn/client
-ExecStartPre=/usr/local/bin/joins-namespace-of-check mailnn
+NetworkNamespacePath=/var/run/netns/mail
 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/openvpn --suppress-timestamps --nobind --config /etc/openvpn/client/mail.conf
 #CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_IPC_LOCK CAP_NET_ADMIN CAP_NET_RAW CAP_SETGID CAP_SETUID CAP_SYS_CHROOT CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE
 LimitNPROC=10
 # DeviceAllow=/dev/null rw
 # DeviceAllow=/dev/net/tun rw
-PrivateNetwork=true
 # in the network namespace, we cant connect to systemd-resolved on 127.0.0.53,
 # because of
 # https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/445782/how-to-allow-systemd-resolved-to-listen-to-an-interface-other-than-loopback
@@ -838,18 +834,14 @@ EOF
 
 u /etc/systemd/system/mailnnroute.service <<'EOF'
 [Unit]
-Description=Network routing for mailnn
-After=syslog.target network-online.target mailnn.service
-Wants=network-online.target
-JoinsNamespaceOf=mailnn.service
-BindsTo=mailnn.service
+Description=Initial setup of mail netns
+After=network.target
+Wants=network.target
 StartLimitIntervalSec=0
 
 [Service]
-Type=simple
+Type=oneshot
 RemainAfterExit=true
-PrivateNetwork=true
-ExecStartPre=/usr/local/bin/joins-namespace-of-check mailnn
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/flock -w 20 /tmp/newns.flock /a/bin/newns/newns -n 10.173.8 start mail
 ExecStop=/usr/bin/flock -w 20 /tmp/newns.flock /a/bin/newns/newns stop mail
 Restart=always
@@ -860,27 +852,24 @@ RestartSec=20
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
 EOF
 
-#
 u /etc/systemd/system/mailnn.service <<'EOF'
 [Unit]
 Description=Network Namespace for mail vpn service that will live forever and cant fail
-# These are the same as unbound.service, except no wants=, which seems
+# These are the same as unbound.service, plus mailnnroute, except no wants=, which seems
 # to me could only make it run earlier, not later. Note, that if we had an
 # After= for a later target
 # than nss-lookup, systemd would just ignore unbound's After=mailnn.service and
 # start it first. It seems logically, that we should not need the Before= here,
 # but I'm not confident that systemd would do something unexpected and still start
-# unbound earlier than this. Also, it seems there is a bug in systemd 255.4 (ecne),
-# where if mailnn is disabled and is started by unbound's dependency, then we stop
-# unbound, change it to joinsnamespaceof=mailnn, then start it, it won't join the
-# existing namespace. So, for now, just avoid doing that.
-After=network.target
+# unbound earlier than this.
+After=network.target mailnnroute.service
+Wants=mailnnroute.service
 Before=nss-lookup.target
 
 [Service]
 Type=simple
-PrivateNetwork=true
 ExecStart=/bin/sleep infinity
+NetworkNamespacePath=/var/run/netns/mail
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
@@ -971,13 +960,11 @@ if ! serverp; then
   u /etc/systemd/system/unbound.service.d/nn.conf <<EOF
 [Unit]
 After=mailnn.service
-JoinsNamespaceOf=mailnn.service
 BindsTo=mailnn.service
 StartLimitIntervalSec=0
 
 [Service]
-ExecStartPre=/usr/local/bin/joins-namespace-of-check mailnn
-PrivateNetwork=true
+NetworkNamespacePath=/var/run/netns/mail
 # note the nsswitch bind is actually not needed for bk, but
 # its the same file so it does no harm.
 BindPaths=$bindpaths
@@ -1027,13 +1014,11 @@ if nn-hostp; then
 
 Wants=$vpnser
 After=network.target mailnn.service $vpnser
-JoinsNamespaceOf=mailnn.service
 BindsTo=mailnn.service
 StartLimitIntervalSec=0
 
 [Service]
-ExecStartPre=/usr/local/bin/joins-namespace-of-check mailnn
-PrivateNetwork=true
+NetworkNamespacePath=/var/run/netns/mail
 # note the nsswitch bind is actually not needed for bk, but
 # its the same file so it does no harm.
 BindPaths=$bindpaths
@@ -2249,12 +2234,10 @@ if mailhost; then
 After=network.target network-online.target mailnn.service $vpnser
 
 Wants=$vpnser
-JoinsNamespaceOf=mailnn.service
 StartLimitIntervalSec=0
 
 [Service]
-ExecStartPre=+/usr/local/bin/joins-namespace-of-check mailnn
-PrivateNetwork=true
+NetworkNamespacePath=/var/run/netns/mail
 BindPaths=$bindpaths
 Restart=always
 # time to sleep before restarting a service