Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:06:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), DougB@DougBarton.net (Doug Barton), karsten@rohrbach.de, imp@harmony.village.org (Warner Losh), grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), areilly@bigpond.net.au (Andrew Reilly), obrien@FreeBSD.ORG (David O'Brien), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ** HEADS UP ** portmap daemon renamed to rpcbind Message-ID: <200104100606.f3A66Kr83257@earth.backplane.com> References: <200104100350.UAA33408@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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:I hope you have commited it, or well soon, to -stable, as this one has :surely been one to send many a young admin screaming from his cubicle :yelling ``but it should work, it really should just work''. Yah, it's in just under the wire. I was tearing my hair out today trying to figure out why NFS wasn't drilling through two firewalls to one of our exodus machines (for a /usr/src and /usr/obj mount). It took about an hour to finally figure out that there was nothing wrong with the firewalls and portmap on the inside was trying to respond with an internal (10.*) network address instead of the external IP address the portmap request came in on! I didn't check first because I just assumed portmap was being talked to over TCP -- but it isn't always. It's exactly the same issue that nfsd had, but worse because various rpc related utilities seem to use a half hazzard mix of tcp and udp connections. I'm really getting quite annoyed at the whole rpcbind/portmap mechanism, it would be nice to see the world un-adopt portmap and just go with hardwired ports. I'll be able to look at -current's rpcbind this weekend. Right now I'm trying to reproduce a socket related crash with a program Terry emailed me today, and there are two other people with 4.3-RC related crashes I've been trying to help track down over the last few daysd and not having much luck with. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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