[lug] TCPD paranoia

[Jeff Howell]

I'm having a bit of a problem with NFS and my workstation. I'm 
attempting to export my homedir via NFS so that it is my NIS homedir. 
Thus when I log into the undreds of machines I admin, I have the homedir 
from my local machine. I'm running into a wierd problem.

We have many machines that are multi homed or have many virtual 
interfaces via ATM. The problem is that when I attempt to log in and it 
tries to mount my homedir, my machine is denying them because the IP the 
machine is sending doesnt' always match what my workstation sees when it 
does a reverse DNS lookup.

 From my logs:
Dec 21 11:28:11 localhost rpc.mountd: refused mount request from 
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (foo.bar.com) for /export/home (/export/home): DNS 
forward lookup does't match with reverse

(IPs and hostnames have been changed to protect the innocent)

In my /etc/hosts.allow I have:
ALL: xxx.xxx. :all where xxx.xxx is the class B i live in.

/etc/hosts.deny is empty

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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Jeff Howell
EDS UNIX Support

  Linux Slackware: The Ultimate NT Service Pack