From: Jeff Layton Subject: Re: making the 'addr=' mount option an address hint Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:59:35 -0400 Message-ID: <1121716775.23863.37.camel@barsoom.rdu.redhat.com> References: <1121614708.6713.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050717165143.GD22503@suse.de> <1121700179.8780.1.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1121709311.23863.14.camel@barsoom.rdu.redhat.com> <1121710145.4522.122.camel@seki.nac.uci.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Trond Myklebust , Olaf Kirch , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Dubm9-0002jx-FC for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:59:41 -0700 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1Dubm9-0008En-D7 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:59:41 -0700 To: Dan Stromberg In-Reply-To: <1121710145.4522.122.camel@seki.nac.uci.edu> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 11:09 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: > Another option would be to make programs that inspect the mount list > (like the mount command :) optionally do a reverse lookup on IP > addresses when listing mounts, or even have them do it by defauylt. The issue here is that a lot of people have b0rken DNS records, where they have a forward record, but no reverse record (or one that is wrong). When mounting via hostname, you won't notice this, but when you go to look at the reverse lookup'ed version it wouldn't look right. I think the existing behavior, while not perfect, at least gives you some idea of what the mount command looked like, and you can still get the actual address of the mount from the addr= option in the mount string. -- Jeff Layton ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs