[plug] NFS problem

Greg Mildenhall greg at networx.net.au
Sun Nov 29 08:40:49 WST 1998


On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, John Summerfield wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Matt Kemner wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, John Summerfield wrote:
> > > Does anyone have any idea what's wrong here?
> > > When I try out mount possum's devices on em, I get this on possum:
> > > Nov 27 20:11:35 possum mountd[283]: Unauthorized access by NFS client 192.168.1.2. 
> > > Nov 27 20:11:35 possum mountd[283]: Blocked attempt of 192.168.1.2 to mount /redhat 
The appearance of IP addresses makes me suspect that you don't have
reverse DNS happening. Maybe mountd just logs like that, I don't remember,
but that sort of thing (from userspace) very often means that a reverse
lookup failed.

> > I needed to add an allow line for rpc.mountd for my clients in my server's
> > files.
> /etc/hosts.deny is all comments.
> [root at possum /etc]# cat hosts.allow
> ALL:.os2.ami.com.au
Well, so long as 192.168.1.2 can be resolved back into *.os2.ami.com.au,
thats great. If not, the TCPwrappers will have no idea who it is.

-Greg



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