[Sussex] Help with NFS

[David Chapman]

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 12:42, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
>
> There should be some clues in the logs on the NFS server box in this
> case. You should look here first.
>
> On the box that runs the NFS server: What is the contents of
> /etc/hosts.allow
it's all comments
 #
> and /etc/hosts.deny ?
# /etc/hosts.deny
# See `man tcpd and `man 5 hosts_access as well as /etc/hosts.allow
# for a detailed description.

http-rman : ALL EXCEPT LOCAL
>
> Many (some? most?) distributions have "ALL: PARANOID" in /etc/hosts.deny
> - which effectively blocks any hosts where the reverse dns doesn't
> work...
>
> If this is the problem, man hosts_access(5) is your friend. But still
> check the logs first - I might be barking up the wrong tree here..
>
> Hope this helps