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[Harry Edmon]

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 10:17 -0800, Harry Edmon wrote:
>   
>> Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 10:08 -0800, Harry Edmon wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> 2. Yes, I know that is a strange IP number, but that is what is in the 
>>>> log file.  What I sent you was cut out of the kernel log on the server.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> OK. What happens if you use the 'clientaddr=' mount option with the
>>> correct IP address that the server should use to call back your client?
>>>
>>> Trond
>>>   
>>>       
>> There is more than one client for this server.  So are you talking about 
>> all the clients?  Since I am doing the mounts via automount, this would 
>> be difficult.   Does it have to be the multi-homed clients only?  
>>     
>
> You should _definitely_ do it for multi-homed clients. Pretty much
> anything for which 'getent hosts $(hostname)' returns a wrong IP
> address.
>
>   
>> Finally, the man page for nfs on my etch system says:
>>
>>        clientaddr=n   On a multi-homed client, this causes the client to 
>> use a
>>                       specific callback address when communicating with 
>> an NFS
>>                       version 4 server.  This option is currently ignored.
>>
>> Do I need a more recent version of mount?
>>     
>
> Nope. Only a more recent manpage :-)
>
> Trond
>   
I tried "getent hosts `hostname`" on some of my single-homed systems, 
and I notice they are returning "127.0.0.1" since that is what is in the 
/etc/hosts file (a Debian artifact).  Would that cause a problem?  By 
the way, none of them return 1.129.255.255.