getting nfs to work with short machine names and dns before files
2007-12-25 9:07:00
sure that /etc/hosts had fqdn listings first, and one of which suggested
putting files before dns, which was a response that i had specifically
said i didn't want. the fqdn-in-/etc/hosts suggestion wasn't much help
either, since i already have fqdns listed (as the first entry for each ip)
in that file, and since (as i said in my question) /etc/hosts isn't even
being consulted, since dns is returning a valid response. (no one had
any suggestions about the parenthetical question about [SUCCESS=continue].)
looks like i'll just use fqdns in dfstab, as well.
-- sweth.
On Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 05:27:56PM -0500, Sweth Chandramouli wrote:
> i've got an nfs server, whose /etc/nsswitch.conf has the line
> "hosts: files dns", whose /etc/hosts has a short (non-fqdn) alias for
> another machine, and whose /etc/dfs/dfstab has a share command that uses
> that same short (non-fqdn) alias. if i change nsswitch.conf to read
> "hosts: dns files", mounting from that other machine stops working. from
> what i can tell, nfs gets the mount request from the client, and sends
> a dns query for the ip from which it is getting the request; since that
> query returns an fqdn, which doesn't match the short entry in dfstab,
> the request is denied, without ever failing over to /etc/hosts. is there
> some way to cause nfs to, once the dns-returned entry fails to match,
> check /etc/hosts and see if a mapping listed there might match instead?
> please don't tell me to use fqdns in dfstab, or switch back to
> files before dns in nsswitch; if necessary, i'll do the former, but i'd
> really like to get things to work without either of those options.
>
> (on a related note, how does nsswitch.conf deal with a clause like
> [SUCCESS=continue] after an entry? that is, would "hosts: dns
> [SUCCESS=continue] files" act just like "hosts: files", or would it cache
> the result of the dns query, and then move on to files regardless, falling
> back to the dns results if nothing were found in files, so that it would
> act like "hosts: files dns" but with the added overhead of _having_ to do
> a dns query for every check?)
>
> tia,
> sweth.
>
>
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> Sweth Chandramouli
> IS Coordinator, The George Washington University
> <sweth@gwu.edu> / (202) 994 - 8521 (V) / (202) 994 - 0458 (F)
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