>>>>>> "ea" == erik ableson <eable...@me.com> writes:
>>>>>> "dc" == Dennis Clarke <dcla...@blastwave.org> writes:
>
>      >> "rw,ro...@100.198.100.0/24", it works fine, and the NFS client
>      >> can do the write without error.
>
>     ea> I' ve found that the NFS host based settings required the
>     ea> FQDN, and that the reverse lookup must be available in your
>     ea> DNS.
>
> I found, oddly, the @a.b.c.d/y syntax works only if the client's IP
> has reverse lookup.  I had to add bogus hostnames to /etc/hosts for
> the whole /24 because if I didn't, for v3 it would reject mounts
> immediately, and for v4 mountd would core dump (and get restarted)
> which you see from the client as a mount that appears to hang.  This
> is all using the @ip/mask syntax.

I have LDAP and DNS in place for name resolution and NFS v4 works fine
with either format in the sharenfs parameter. Never seen a problem. The
Solaris 8 an 9 NFS clients work fine also.

>
>  http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6901832
>
> If you use hostnames instead, it makes sense that you would have to
> use FQDN's.  If you want to rewrite mountd to allow using short
> hostnames, the access checking has to be done like this:
>
>   at export time:
>     given hostname-> forward nss lookup -> list of IP's -> remember IP's
>
>   at mount time:
>     client IP -> check against list of remembered IP's
>
> but with fqdn's it can be:
>
>   at export time:
>     given hostname -> remember it
>
>   at mount time:
>      client IP -> reverse nss lookup -> check against remembered list
>                        \-->forward lookup->verify client IP among results
>
> The second way, all the lookups happen at mount time rather than
> export time.  This way the data in the nameservice can change without
> forcing you to learn and then invoke some kind of ``rescan the
> exported filesystems'' command or making mountd remember TTL's for its
> cached nss data, or any such complexity.  Keep all the nameservice
> caching inside nscd so there is only one place to flush it!  However
> the forward lookup is mandatory for security, not optional OCDism.
> Without it, anyone from any IP can access your NFS server so long as
> he has control of his reverse lookup, which he probably does.  I hope
> mountd is doing that forward lookup!
>
>     dc> Try to use a backslash to escape those special chars like so :
>
>     dc> zfs set
>     dc> sharenfs=nosub\,nosuid\,rw\=hostname1\:hostname2\,root\=hostname2
>     dc> zpoolname/zfsname/pathname
>
> wth?  Commas and colons are not special characters.  This is silly.

Works real well.

-- 
Dennis

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