On 08.06.2015 10:45, Chuck Lever wrote:
On Jun 8, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Sean Elble <elbles@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
OK, yes I read that last week, and had just forgotten it. That sounds
to
me like - - host is broken (or, at least noisier than it should be in
this
case).
Agreed. I guess it's just a matter of what the appropriate fix is.
Do you provide an IP address or a hostname when specifying - - host?
I've provided both hostname and IP address, with the same result, IIRC.
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. :-)
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