Re: Bug#579397: STAT_FAIL to debian for SM_MON of 192.168.120.254, No canonical hostname found for 192.168.120.254

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

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On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 13:05 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> On 06/ 9/10 10:41 AM, Steven Shiau wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2010年06月06日 04:29, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 17:08 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> >>> On 05/24/10 11:22 AM, Chuck Lever wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>>> We can probably remove the reverse mapping constraint for presentation
> >>>> addresses. A simple fix might be to change statd_canonical_name() from:
> >>>>
> >>>> freeaddrinfo(ai);
> >>>> if (!result)
> >>>> return NULL;
> >>>>
> >>>> to
> >>>>
> >>>> freeaddrinfo(ai);
> >>>> if (!result)
> >>>> return strdup(hostname);
> >>>>
> >>>> Let me know if this works.
> >>> Any update? I have a patch ready for nfs-utils to fix this regression,
> >>> but I need confirmation that it addresses your problem.
> >> Steven originally had this problem, not me. Steven, do you need me to
> >> build a new package with this change?
> >>
> >> Ben.
> >>
> > Ben,
> > Yes, please.
> > Thanks.
> 
> Any progress on this?

I've heard nothing from Steven but one positive report from another
user.  In any case we'll include this in our package.

We now have a git repository of the nfs-utils package at
<git://git.debian.org/kernel/nfs-utils.git>; currently our changes are
kept in a quilt patch series in debian/patches.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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