diff -ru orig/modules/mount_nfs.c autofs-4.0.0pre10/modules/mount_nfs.c
--- orig/modules/mount_nfs.c	2004-01-13 09:29:27.000000000 -0800
+++ autofs-4.0.0pre10/modules/mount_nfs.c	2004-01-13 09:30:06.000000000 -0800
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
   struct sockaddr_in saddr, laddr;
   int sock, local, err;
   int nosymlink = 0;
+  int nolocalbinds = 0;
   size_t len;
 
   syslog(LOG_DEBUG, MODPREFIX " root=%s name=%s what=%s, fstype=%s, options=%s",
@@ -113,6 +114,8 @@
 #endif
       if (strncmp("nosymlink", cp, comma-cp-1) == 0)
 	nosymlink = 1;
+      if (strncmp("no_local_binds", cp, comma-cp-1) == 0)
+	nolocalbinds = 1;
       else {
 	memcpy(nfsp, cp, comma-cp+1);
 	nfsp += comma-cp+1;
@@ -205,7 +208,7 @@
   }
   sprintf(fullpath, "%s/%s", root, name);
   
-  if ( local ) {
+  if ( local && !nolocalbinds ) {
     /* Local host -- do a "bind" */
   
     syslog(LOG_DEBUG, MODPREFIX "%s is local, doing bind", name);