On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 18:55 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
> >
> > That's because v4 doesn't check the each interface to determine if the
> > hostname is really local.
> 
> Let me follow up on this a little more. The NFS server (and client) has 
> three network interfaces, with IP addresses (say) 192.168.1.1, 192.168.2.1 
> and 192.168.3.1 (netmask 255.255.255.0 for each subnet). The server's FQDN 
> is foo.domain.org. Then what I actually had was:
> 
>       # getent hosts 192.168.1.1
>       192.168.1.1     foo.domain.org
> 
>       # getent hosts 192.168.2.1
>       192.168.2.1     foo.domain.org
> 
>       # getent hosts 192.168.3.1
>       192.168.3.1     foo.domain.org foo
> 
> The third of these is apparently sufficient to stop autofs5 from doing a 
> bind mount. After removing the short name "foo" from the third entry, it 
> works. This doesn't seem right; after all, the FQDN of the server does 
> match one of the names for each of the entries. The NFS server name is the 
> map is "foo.domain.org". Or is that right after all?

This should work OK.
I'll check it out.
At least you have a workaround, for now.

Ian


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