John LeMay wrote on Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 09:16:40AM -0400 : > All, > > I'm seeing a lot of these messages in my log on an older LM7.2 machine. > There have been a very few updates to this machine in a long time. Can't > find anything real useful on Google about the message though. And ideas? > > Jul 10 09:08:30 cyclops rpc.statd[713]: gethostbyname error for > cyclops.njmc.com > Jul 10 09:08:30 cyclops rpc.statd[713]: STAT_FAIL to cyclops.njmc.com for > SM_MON > of 192.168.2.51
Your nfs server is attempting to do a DNS lookup for one of the machines that is connecting to it. You should have a DNS server behind your firewall that is authoritative for the njmc.com domain (forward lookups) and the 192.168.2.* aka 2.168.192.in-addr.arpa (reverse lookups) domain. Then install firewall rules on all machines to reject identd lookups (rejecting is better than not filtering because it gets rid of the timeout issue). Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-21mdk
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