On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 13:15 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: > > On 08/04/13 10:08, Simo Sorce wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 09:39 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: > >> > >> On 02/04/13 15:32, Simo Sorce wrote: > >>> 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. > >>> > >>> This patch adds a new pair of options (-z/-Z) that allow to turn on/off > >>> DNS reverse resolution for determining the server name to use with GSSAPI. > >> Again, please tell me why we need the -Z flag when that is the default? > > > > The idea is to switch the default in the code at some point, so then -Z > > will be needed to get back to the original behavior. > I'm thinking that's what major version number changes are for... not flags... > > > > > The idea is that by having both flags a distribution may choose to > > decide now what behavior they want and use the relative flag. Then even > > if we change the default their configuration will not "break". > I'll do the work to remove the option and repost the patches.. As you wish, I do not have hard preferences, should we take the bait and also by default *not* do PTR lookups ? Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- 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
