From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 7 17:43:44 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA11307 for current-outgoing; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 17:43:44 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA11295 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 17:43:40 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA02014; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 17:43:17 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508080043.RAA02014@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: workaround for talk's address problem To: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 17:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de In-Reply-To: <4542.807841074@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Aug 8, 95 01:17:54 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1169 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > In message <199508080002.RAA01756@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" write > s: > >Okay, I am subnetted 0xfffffff0, .17 is my 10Mb/s ether, .33 and .49 are > >2 100Mb/s ethernets. I can nfs mount from any of those three networks > >without any problems what so ever. I do it all day long and have been for > >over a month with this setup. > > As Jsutin already stated, you run named on gndrsh, so when a client > does a nslookup of gndrsh to find it's address, it'll get the address > of the interface it connects to ('cos BIND is like that). However, > morton/throck don't run nameservers, who does the nameservice, and > hence the address could be returned in a random order. If the slip > addr is returned first, then mount will try and contact the slip > address. mountd will reply from the ether address and confuse the > client. > > Does this clear things up? :-) Yes, but leads to a simple fix, running a cacheing name server on all NFS servers, and point your clients to that name server. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD