Hello Ian, list, I had a user report an issue which is summed up in the subject. Basically, he disallowed UDP traffic to his NFS server. Because the autofs code uses UDP in the rpc_ping function to determine if a server is alive, it would conclude that the server was not alive. He was, of course, using NFSv4 over TCP.
This is a bit of a corner case. I'm not sure if this is a valid problem or not, and I'm sure it could be argued either way. So, what does the list think? To provide further information on the implementation implications, we would actually have to look at the filesystem options, which is something we don't really need to bother ourselves with, at the moment. That part sounds a little ugly to me. So, thoughts? Comments? -Jeff _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
