FC8 and NFS service
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Thu Feb 21 00:11:00 UTC 2008
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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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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