From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: mountd gives "illegal port" Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:39:10 -0400 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20041027163910.GB4292@fieldses.org> References: <20041027124228.GJ4724@fi.muni.cz> <20041027154548.GA4292@fieldses.org> <20041027162321.GD4333@fi.muni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CMqpG-00069f-3c for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:39:06 -0700 Received: from dsl093-002-214.det1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.2.214] helo=pickle.fieldses.org) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.41) id 1CMqpE-0001VL-K9 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:39:06 -0700 To: Jan Kasprzak In-Reply-To: <20041027162321.GD4333@fi.muni.cz> Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:23:22PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote: > J. Bruce Fields wrote: > : On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:42:28PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote: > : > I have discovered the following problem in Linux NFS: When you mount > : > many filesystems from the same server, mountd sometimes refuses the > : > request with "illegal port" message in syslog. To reproduce this, I did > : > the following: > : > : Just add the "insecure" export option to the server's export. > : > Of course, but I don't want to do this. Why not? > The problem is that client is querying portmap over TCP and from > privileged port. By changing this we can use twice as much mounts in > the TIME_WAIT period. OK. It seems like kind of an obscure thing to care about.... > We may also force mount to query mountd over UDP, but I don't know how > to do this. -o udp is probably for nfsd traffic, isn't it? That's what I'd assume, but I don't know.--b. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs