#1054297 exabgp can not bind to IP:179

Package:
exabgp
Source:
exabgp
Submitter:
lucas
Date:
2023-10-21 03:09:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1054297#5
Date:
2023-10-21 03:07:12 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
     I was trying to establish a BGP sessionbetween two exabgp services,
     sniffing the interface I've noticed that exabgp was sending a RST after the
     TCP SYN, leading me to run `ss -naltp` and not seeing exabgp listening on
     port 179.  After changing the exabgp.tcp.bind from '' to '0.0.0.0' in
     exabgp.env, exabgp was not able to start informing that can not bind to
     0.0.0.0:179 because it was not running as root.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
     I was able to let exabgp service to bind on port 179 adding the following
     lines to /lib/systemd/system/exabgp.service
     ```
     CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
     CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
     ```

   * What was the outcome of this action?
     Exabgp was able to start succesfully binding to 0.0.0.0:179