On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:36 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Apparently lockd does not expect statd to be used with -n
> > switch: statd is expected to bind loopback, always. Attached
> > patches show one (IPv4 specific) way of fixing it. Comments?
>
> Maybe statd really should always bind to the loopback interface? Is
> there any reason not to?
In my case I used -n to push NSM/NLM comms to
clusters specific NFS service address (that just
happens to migrate all around). -n is the only way
to do this: otherwise it will bind to INADDR_ANY
on node that has gazillion interfaces/addresses..
That, and the original reasoning for the option is
said in statd code:
/*
* If a local hostname is given (-n option to statd), bind to
the address
* specified. This is required to support clients that ignore
the mon_name in
* the statd protocol but use the source address from the
request packet.
*/
> From a quick look at the current nfs-utils code: it looks like the -n
> option only affects the operation of the sm-notify program that's called
> on boot to notify peer statd's? I'm a little confused. (What version
> of nfs-utils are you working from?)
Right. 1.0.8 -> 1.0.12, it's valid for all.
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// Janne
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