On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
There is something funny with NFS mounts and DNS that isn't really documented anywere that I can find. Firstly, when mounting the server tries a reverse DNS lookup on the client. It also does a forward check.
this is the tcpwrappers support, enabled by default in all distros.
man tcpd
for the DNS related restrictions this put on NFS.
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