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List:       linux-nfs
Subject:    Re: redundant reverse DNS on NFS mount or umount
From:       Chuck Lever <chuck.lever () oracle ! com>
Date:       2009-02-26 16:00:43
Message-ID: 88ADDFBF-1A51-47B5-A812-8E416A1720ED () oracle ! com
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On Feb 17, 2009, at Feb 17, 2009, 10:22 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I've a problem where reverse DNS is being done by the NFS server.
> This is very problematic when the DNS server goes away.
> As far as I can see there should be no lookups being performed
> because I've nothing in /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} and just
> numeric hosts in /etc/exports.

rpc.statd performs reverse DNS lookups to verify the hostname of the  
remote that is about to be monitored.... perhaps that is one place to  
start looking.

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