Possible breakthrough Re: Debian Bug#203918 - statd request on eth interface, not localhost?

[Chip Salzenberg <chip@debian.org>]

(Jordi, this is an edited msg copied to the NFS list.)

According to Jordi Mallach:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:40:28AM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > Hm.  I don't suppose if you type
> >    host 127.0.0.1
> >    host localhost
> > it fails?  I know, long shot.  :-)  Looks like a dead end.
> 
> Heh, maybe not...
> 
> I'm assuming you're interested on the server.
> 
> host 127.0.0.1 is ok, but...
> 
> 20740:jordi@natura:~$ host localhost 
> localhost.int.oskuro.net does not exist (Authoritative answer)
> zsh: exit 69    host localhost

That *is* interesting.  It's possible that statd and even portmap will
refuse to accept requests from localhost, since your /etc/hosts.deny
says "ALL: PARANOID", and your loopback interface fails the paranoia
test.

Could you please do what it takes to make "host localhost" and "host
127.0.0.1" work on both client *and* server, and see if your problem
goes away?  Either that or add "ALL: 127.0.0.1" to /etc/hosts.allow.

Hm.  Things could be breaking even sooner than that, depending on
whether any of nfs-utils depends on the name "localhost"....

> both boxes have a
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 
> line in /etc/hosts.

Hm again.  I wonder if the tcpwrappers paranoia check uses /etc/hosts.

(Sorry for the resend, Jordi.)
-- 
Chip Salzenberg               - a.k.a. -               <chip@pobox.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K


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