Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!UMN-REI-UC.ARPA!slevy From: slevy@UMN-REI-UC.ARPA (Stuart Levy) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Fwd: NFS over arpanet? Message-ID: <8712011829.AA19633@uc.msc.umn.edu> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 13:29:21 EST Article-I.D.: uc.8712011829.AA19633 Posted: Tue Dec 1 13:29:21 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 21:58:31 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 9 One problem we've had in NFSing between disparate machines is with naming them. The mount request passes the originating machine -name- rather than having the server use gethostbyaddr(). It's important to check that "hostname" on the client yields a name known to the server and vice versa. That's probably not the whole problem but can cause things to break. A guy from Proteon, Mick Scully (mcs@proteon.com) recently visited here and mentioned that he had mounted NFS filesystems at Berkeley across ARPAnet.