I think portmap is the reason. It's in charge or managing port security in
NFS and other services, and requires DNS, i think.
Take this with a grain of salt.
Lang Zhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi,
> Why i have to list all the hosts into /etc/hosts or use DNS in order to give
> clients to mount my f/s using NFS ?
>
> Is there any tweak so that i no need to add host and everyone able to mount
> ?
>
> FYI,i export the directory as public ( <world,ro> )
>
> Thanks
> -lz
>
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