On 02/04/13 14:21, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 17:58 +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: linux-nfs-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-nfs- >>> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Simo Sorce >>> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 1:49 PM >>> To: Linux NFS Mailing list >>> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Avoid reverse resolution for server name >>> >>> A NFS client should be able to work properly even if the DNS Reverse record >>> for the server is not set. There is no excuse to forcefully prevent that from >>> working when it can. >> >> Note that rpc.statd has the same limitation. > > I checked rpc.statd with a quick "git grep getnameinfo", and as far as I > can see PTR lookups are done only if the 'name' is actually an IP > address, but skipped if not. So I think rpc.statd is ok. > > I see rpc.statd uses getaddrinfo with hints set to AI_NUMERICHOST, if > that's preferred over using inet_pton I can change my patches to do the > same. Please do.. let try to keep it consistent.... thanks! steved. -- 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
