fix parsing ip on more kinds of networks

[newns] / newns

diff --git a/newns b/newns
index 2896cf21d942162ccfe4d2472af2e962450ad937..823d184b5b07b323d17acbe91a46b5b2a3ccd694 100755 (executable)
--- a/newns
+++ b/newns
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ dexec() { ip netns exec default "$@"; }
 
 # background: head -n1 is defensive. Not sure if there is some weird feature
 # for 2 routes to be 0/0.
-gateway_if=$(ipd route list exact 0/0 | head -n1| sed -r 's/.*\s(\S+)\s*$/\1/')
+gateway_if=$(ipd route list exact 0/0 | head -n1| sed -r 's/.*dev\s+(\S+).*/\1/')
 nat() { dexec iptables -t nat $1 POSTROUTING -o $gateway_if -j MASQUERADE \
               -m comment --comment "systemd network namespace nat"; }
 
@@ -190,13 +190,26 @@ start() {
     mkdir -p /root/mount_namespaces
     if ! mountpoint /root/mount_namespaces >/dev/null; then
         mount --bind /root/mount_namespaces /root/mount_namespaces
-        mount --make-private /root/mount_namespaces
     fi
+    # note: This is outside the mount condition because I've mysteriously
+    # had this become shared instead of private, perhaps it
+    # got remounted somehow and lost the setting.
+    mount --make-private /root/mount_namespaces
     if [[ ! -e /root/mount_namespaces/$nn ]]; then
         touch /root/mount_namespaces/$nn
     fi
     if ! mountpoint /root/mount_namespaces/$nn >/dev/null; then
-        unshare --mount=/root/mount_namespaces/$nn
+        # documentation on propagation is a bit weird because it
+        # confusingly talks about binds, namespaces, and mirrors (which
+        # seems to be just another name for bind), shared subtrees
+        # (which seems to a term for binds and namespaces), and does not
+        # properly specify whether the documentation applies to binds,
+        # namespaces, or both. Notably, propagation for binds is marked
+        # on the original mount point, and propagation for a mount
+        # namespace is marked on mounts within the namespace.  Here, we
+        # specify that we want mount changes propagated to us, but not
+        # back.
+        unshare --propagation slave --mount=/root/mount_namespaces/$nn
     fi
     ####   end mount namespace setup ####