FC8 and NFS service

[Bill Davidsen]

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.

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