[lttng-dev] [PATCH] doc: Fix bind address example for lttng-relayd

Benjamin Poirier benjamin.poirier at gmail.com
Mon Jan 6 20:58:43 EST 2020


On 2020/01/06 09:39, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> ----- On Jan 6, 2020, at 12:19 AM, Benjamin Poirier benjamin.poirier at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > INADDR_ANY is 0.0.0.0
> 
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
> Double-checking this seems to confirm what the man page states:
> 
> % lttng-relayd -b
> % netstat -lnp | grep lttng-relayd
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5342            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      4445/lttng-relayd   
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5343            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      4445/lttng-relayd   
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5344          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      4445/lttng-relayd   
> unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     56508    4445/lttng-relayd    /home/compudj/.lttng/relayd/health-4445
> 
> Based on this output, the "live" port of the relayd daemon appears to be listening
> only on 127.0.0.1 by default.

That's right but not relevant to this patch. The part of the man page
changed by this patch is not stating the defaults.

> 
> What makes you think the man page needs to be updated ?

The part of the man page changed by this patch is:
	If a user is within a secured network and/or has proper firewall
	settings, lttng-relayd can listen to LTTng live connections from
	all network interfaces by specifying
	--live-port=tcp://localhost:5344.

That is incorrect. To listen for connections to all addresses on the host,
the socket has to be bound to INADDR_ANY, 0.0.0.0.


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