On 08.06.2015 10:27, Chuck Lever wrote:
I don’t understand the need to “turn off” an address family.
That’s what
/etc/netconfig is supposed to be for. What’s not happening here that
should be?
What I mean is: I’d rather not add more command line options if there
is a way for rpc.nfsd to automatically and quietly do what is needed.
But I don’t understand the use case here. Sean, can you explain it
for
bears of little brain?
Sure, and please correct me if any of my understanding is incorrect (as
it may well be). In my environment, I wanted to have NFS only listen on
one interface of a multihomed host. In using the "--host" parameter to
do so, I saw the error message regarding IPv6 thrown. While disabling
IPv6 globally in /etc/netconfig is an option (one I understand to be
"global", in that it'd affect *all* applications on the host), it'd be
nice to disable IPv6 for a single service/daemon instead.
Of course, the fact that at least Ubuntu and RHEL (and almost certainly
their upstream and their derivatives, respectively) relay the error
message when running the NFS init scripts could confuse someone into
thinking NFS failed to start properly (until they look at the output of
netstat -nalp, etc.). I'd almost argue that's a larger concern. By the
same token, "--host" seems a little used option, for whatever reason.
In any case, I'm the little brained one in this group. :-)
-Sean
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