reclaimer hang

[Trond Myklebust]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 11:37 -0800, Harry Edmon wrote:
> 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).

I know. Debian install totally _sucks_ at setting up /etc/hosts. It
should never be aliasing the FQDN to 127.0.0.1.

>   Would that cause a problem?  By 
> the way, none of them return 1.129.255.255.

It would confuse the server when it tries to probe for a service that is
hosted on another machine but ends up hitting something on the loopback
network. In theory this isn't supposed to matter much: all that is
supposed to happen is that the server will refuse to give out
delegations when it finds out that it can't recall them. The fact that
you are having problems with reclaiming state, and that you are seeing
strange recall requests on the server means that it may be worth trying
this out.

Trond