Re: FC8 and NFS service

From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen(at)tmr.com>
Date: Wed Feb 20 2008 - 19:11:00 EST

Todd Denniston wrote:

> Bill Davidsen wrote, On 02/20/2008 02:32 PM:

>> I am trying to replace a bunch of NFS servers with new machines
>> running FC8. The NFS server is doing some kind of evil security check
>> which was not present in FC1, causing connection rejects like "invalid
>> port XXXXXX" messages. Since the port works against the FC1 server,
>> and there are 120-140 clients per server, running various operating
>> systems, the solution lies in telling the NFS service to stop doing
>> the unwanted security check and treat anything coming through iptables
>> as valid.
>>
>> Has someone a thought on this? Changing clients isn't going to happen,
>> and it seems the Solaris NFS server works (or the upgrade from FC1
>> might be dropped).
>>

> 
> Does this help?
> 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-July/msg03474.html
> 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-July/msg03489.html
> 

The 2nd one may be useful, although at the moment I have just poked a seven bit wide hole in the firewall for anything from the local subnet of the private network.

Testing continues, thanks.

-- 
Bill Davidsen 
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

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Received on Wed Feb 20 19:09:19 2008