reclaimer hang

Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust at fys.uio.no
Thu Nov 15 15:02:04 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 14:54 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 11:37 -0800, Harry Edmon wrote:
> >>   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.
> 
> More recent versions of mount are supposed to extract the source socket 
> address when initially connecting to the server and will use that for 
> the clientaddr.  It may have some benefit for single-home clients.

Could that be causing Harry's client to be setting this weird callback
address of 1.129.255.255?

Trond



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