From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 7 18:11:11 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA12466 for current-outgoing; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 18:11:11 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA12458 ; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 18:11:10 -0700 Message-Id: <199508080111.SAA12458@freefall.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer), jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: workaround for talk's address problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Aug 95 17:43:16 PDT." <199508080043.RAA02014@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 18:11:09 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> >> In message <199508080002.RAA01756@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" wr >ite >> 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. It only works if the multi-homed host that is running named is local to the client. If I'm in Japan and I try to access a multi-homed NFS server in New York, I'm screwed no matter which name server I use. >-- >Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com >Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================