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Re: nfs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wolfgang Jung)
Sat Apr 27 23:01:53 1996

In-Reply-To: <199604242107.PAA01881@pebbles.lardav.com>
From: Wolfgang Jung <woju@keep.in-berlin.de>
Date: 	Fri, 26 Apr 96 10:16:34 +0200
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu

You wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm trying to export a directory via NFS.  My exports file has this entry:
>
> /eng.ldeng/ldeng	*.lardav.com(rw)
>
> For some reason the wild card isn't working and I can't mount the directory
> on any of the machines in the domain.  When I specify a particular machine
> (such as:  /eng.lden/ldeng    machine.lardav.com(rw) ) then it does work.
> This isn't very good since there are many machines that I need to export to.
> Also, I noticed an entry in my syslog:
>
> mountd[212]: exports file has anon entries, but host
> mountd[212]: has non-private IP address 204.240.247.58!
>
> I believe this is put in the syslog when rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd startup - is
> this error somehow related?
>
> Will someone please tell me how to use wildcards in my exports file!
>
>
> thayne@lardav.com

Do you have setup the /etc/resolv.conf corredt. Or is the mounting host in  
/etc/hosts ?
since mountd need to get the name for the requeting IP Number, otherwise it  
won't know anything about domainnames :-)

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