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  From: <wls@tell.net.au>
  To  : <bjohns44@csc.com.au>
  Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 03:32:30 GMT

Re: NFS & DNS Lookups

Hey Brandon,

You're a champ!

As you can guess it worked wonders.


Thanks

Wayne


> probably the easiest solution is to add both names to the hosts files of
> the boxes
> once the names resolve problem solvered.
> 
> Regards,                    Network Engineer - (NES) CSC Tech Park SA
> Brandon Johnson
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> 
> Hi All
> 
> I have just installed a machine with Redhat 8. I have set up the NFS
> server on it like I did with the linux server which was previously in 
it's
> place(an earlier version of redhat). But it seems like NFS now does DNS
> forward and reverse lookups on the domain that is placed in the exports
> file. If the results of these lookups do not match exactly then NFS 
server
> denies the connection with the client.
> 
> I need to turn this feature off, but cannot find how to do it in the man
> pages or how-to's.
> 
> Could some please point me in the right direction ?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Wayne
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