On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Robert Friberg wrote:
>
> Greetings from a rainy Sweden!
>
> I have 2 machines at home, both running RH 6.0 with
> a standard server install. I edited /etc/exports by
> adding the line:
>
> / (rw, no_root_squash)
>
> and restarted nfs. From the other machine (as root) I typed:
>
> mount 192.168.1.250:/ /mnt/bravo
>
> This yields "...failed, reason given by server: Permision denied".
> After some more random browsing I found some clues about portmap
> and added to /etc/hosts.allow the line:
>
> portmap:ALL
>
> I rebooted, tried the mount again and got the same error.
> /var/log/messages says:
>
> mountd[407]: mount request from unknown host 192.168.1.99
>
> What's going on here?
>
>
Put 192.168.1.99 in your /etc/hosts file. What is happening is reverse
DNS lookup is failing.
Mikkel
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