nevermind - user error keyutils was not installed as a dependency of cifs-utils ... so had to install keyutils On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 5:46 PM Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I saw a strange error testing DFS today. > > When I connected to the server it gave out the referrals with the > server hostname. Since the client wasn't configured for DNS, I had > added an entry in /etc/hosts for that hostname with the correct ip > address. > > When I ping the hostname it works ... but mount still fails and in > cifs.ko I get "dnfs_resolve_server_name_to_ip: unable to resolve: ..." > > It looks like a locally configured (/etc/hosts) address doesn't work > with DFS on Linux client. > > Ideas? > > -- > Thanks, > > Steve -- Thanks, Steve
