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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mountd: change "unknown host" error message to "unmatched host"
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:21:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E0E44D.7090207@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222690298-20802-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com>



Jeff Layton wrote:
> I've had a few users mention that they find this message confusing:
> 
>      mount request from unknown host 10.11.14.99 for /export
> 
> The hosts are listed in DNS with proper reverse records, so the reason
> why the host is "unknown" isn't clear. This patch just changes the
> wording of this error to hopefully make it more clear why the mount
> request was rejected. This also makes this error message use a format
> more similar to the other error messages in auth_authenticate().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>

Committed.

steved.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-29 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-29 12:11 [PATCH] mountd: change "unknown host" error message to "unmatched host" Jeff Layton
2008-09-29 14:21 ` Steve Dickson [this message]

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