From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>
Cc: "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
Linux NFS Mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Avoid reverse resolution for server name
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:25:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <515B22B3.8030406@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1364926918.2660.1273.camel@willson.li.ssimo.org>
On 02/04/13 14:21, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 17:58 +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-nfs-
>>> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Simo Sorce
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 1:49 PM
>>> To: Linux NFS Mailing list
>>> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Avoid reverse resolution for server name
>>>
>>> A NFS client should be able to work properly even if the DNS Reverse record
>>> for the server is not set. There is no excuse to forcefully prevent that from
>>> working when it can.
>>
>> Note that rpc.statd has the same limitation.
>
> I checked rpc.statd with a quick "git grep getnameinfo", and as far as I
> can see PTR lookups are done only if the 'name' is actually an IP
> address, but skipped if not. So I think rpc.statd is ok.
>
> I see rpc.statd uses getaddrinfo with hints set to AI_NUMERICHOST, if
> that's preferred over using inet_pton I can change my patches to do the
> same.
Please do.. let try to keep it consistent.... thanks!
steved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-02 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-02 17:49 [PATCH 0/3] Avoid DNS Reverse lookups when possible Simo Sorce
2013-04-02 17:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] Fix segfault when using -R option Simo Sorce
2013-04-02 19:11 ` Steve Dickson
2013-04-02 17:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] Avoid reverse resolution for server name Simo Sorce
2013-04-02 17:58 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-04-02 18:08 ` Simo Sorce
2013-04-02 18:53 ` Jeff Layton
2013-04-02 18:21 ` Simo Sorce
2013-04-02 18:25 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2013-04-02 18:44 ` Simo Sorce
2013-04-02 19:20 ` Steve Dickson
2013-04-02 19:32 ` [PATCH 0/2] Alternative patchset to avoid PTR lookups Simo Sorce
2013-04-02 19:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] Avoid reverse resolution for server name Simo Sorce
2013-04-08 13:39 ` Steve Dickson
2013-04-08 14:08 ` Simo Sorce
2013-04-09 17:15 ` Steve Dickson
2013-04-09 17:25 ` Simo Sorce
2013-04-09 17:35 ` Steve Dickson
2013-04-09 18:02 ` Simo Sorce
2013-04-09 18:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-04-09 19:12 ` Steve Dickson
2013-04-09 19:22 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-04-10 10:43 ` Jeff Layton
2013-04-10 14:53 ` Steve Dickson
2013-04-02 19:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] Document new -z/-Z options Simo Sorce
2013-04-03 14:20 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-04-03 14:35 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-04-03 14:56 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-04-03 15:10 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-04-03 15:27 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-04-02 17:49 ` [PATCH 3/3] Document new -N option Simo Sorce
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