I found the problem:
I mention below that I tried Reverse DNS. In fact I stuffed up the
reverse zone file by leaving off the trailing dot of the domain name!
so I had the client IP resolving thus:
xen1:~# host 10.64.9.15
15.9.64.10.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer
leela.xen.au.ivc.15.9.64.10.in-addr.arpa.
Not close enough !!!
Cheers all.
Chris Bayley wrote:
Hi team, I had a curious problem with an attempt to create NFS export
using wildcard declared hosts. The man:exports page has this to say:
wildcards
Machine names may contain the wildcard characters * and ?. This can be
used to make the exports file more compact; for instance, *.cs.foo.edu
matches all hosts in the domain cs.foo.edu. As these characters also
match the dots in a domain name, the given pattern will also match all
hosts within any subdomain of cs.foo.edu.
so I set up an export thus:
/tmp *.cs.foo.edu(rw,sync)
and when I tried to mount it from a box with hostname='mybox' and
dnsdomainname='mybox.cs.foo.edu' I get a permission denied error. But if
export thus:
/tmp mybox.cs.foo.edu(rw,sync)
I can mount the export no problems. From the server and the guest I can
ping either 'mybox' or 'mybox.cs.foo.edu' without problem. I tried even
adding a reverse lookup for mybox's ip - but no change.
Any wisdoms out there in *nix admin land ?
: )
ChrisB
