On Nov 7, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Jim Rees wrote: > Chuck Lever wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Jim Rees wrote: > >> Is there some good reason why the rpcbind '-h' option (bind to given >> address) applies only to the udp listening socket and not to the tcp socket? > > Yes. See the mail archives. I believe we've discussed this thoroughly > within the past six months to a year. If there's any bug here, it's that > "-h" is not well documented. > > It's documented well enough but I'm still in the dark about the reason. I > don't recall the discussion and can't find it in the archives. The search > box on spinics isn't working for me, it returns results from the entire web, > not just the list archive. > > As I said before, I was hoping for the equivalent of "portmap -l". I was > ready to code up a patch of some kind but now have a workaround (mount with > nolock and don't run rpcbind at all). I wouldn't object to having a "local only" option that turns off the AF_INET[6] listener and just listens on the AF_LOCAL socket, but that may be problematic until we have a complete transition away from glibc RPC, which still uses AF_INET loopback extensively. Glad you found a work-around. -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
