Re: [patch] fix statd -n

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Janne Karhunen wrote:
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..


What happens on systems with more than one network interface?

   Thanx...

      ps

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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