From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:18060 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752463Ab3EBMIy (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 May 2013 08:08:54 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid DNS reverse resolution for server names (take 3) From: Simo Sorce To: Jim Rees Cc: NeilBrown , Steve Dickson , Linux NFS Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20130502055625.GA11376@umich.edu> References: <1366380998-2581-1-git-send-email-steved@redhat.com> <20130502131332.5c0ce2b0@notabene.brown> <20130502055625.GA11376@umich.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 08:08:47 -0400 Message-ID: <1367496527.2976.30.camel@willson.li.ssimo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 01:56 -0400, Jim Rees wrote: > I really disliked the man page wording in the original patch. Yours is much > better. I agree the man page wording is much better +1 > Note that it's possible to have a fqdn with no dots in it, but I expect this > will never happen. A FQDN with no dots in it is a top level domain name, it is extremely unlikely you will have a NFS server that uses a TLD as name although theoretically possible :-) Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York