Network namespaces isolate their own interfaces, addresses, and routes, and this removes the one named testns, tearing down everything inside it. Interfaces moved into the namespace with ip link set netns return only if explicitly moved back. Deleting a namespace cannot be undone, and the ip netns add testns companion creates it.
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