Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Aug 1998 18:33:32 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Steven N. Hirsch" <> | Subject | Re: NFS looking good! |
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On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > One last wish-list item. It would be great if kexportfs accepted domain > > wildcards like the user nfs server. It's a great pain having to > > specifically list all potential client boxes. > > The user level mountd/nfs has the advantage it can do DNS lookups being > a user application. The kernel side stuff has to work with address or > at best address/mask alas
Ugh. Is it possible to create a kernel daemon to perform the DNS lookups on our behalf? Perhaps something akin to the kmod thread?
Failing that, masks are a must. I can't see sysadmins generating huge export files with one entry per potential client <g>.
Steve
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