From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: [PATCH] mountd: change "unknown host" error message to "unmatched host" Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:21:01 -0400 Message-ID: <48E0E44D.7090207@RedHat.com> References: <1222690298-20802-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org To: Jeff Layton Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:37295 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751440AbYI2OWZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:22:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1222690298-20802-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 Committed. steved.