Re: NFS looking good!

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Wed, 2 Sep 1998 18:30:25 +1200


On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 01:23:27PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:

> Are wildcard, subnet and netgroups as hostname not enough? I have
> verified that at least wildcard works for me.

The kernel doesn't have a resolver, the kernel only sees addresses,
not hostname.

Personally, I prefer access based on networks/netmasks and thats a
more sane approach, by hostname is flawed because I can't always tell
what some bunny is going to put in the DNS when the DNS is managed
outside of my local-network and domain of immediate control.

-cw

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