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From: dillon@best.com (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: nfs mounting gatekeeper
Date: 15 Nov 1995 14:42:40 -0800
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <48dqd0$nsh@blob.best.net>
References: <199511131943.LAA06834@dtr.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.951113134127.2197D-100000@apollo.COSC.GOV> <48adtg$q3r@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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:In article <48adtg$q3r@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>,
:Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> wrote:
:>Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, -Vince-
:>(vince@apollo.COSC.GOV) had the courage to say:
:>
:...
:>: Hmmm, so that's why it doesn't work? Their README.nfs file on
:>: their ftp site seems to say they are nfs mountable or has that changed?
:>
:>: Cheers,
:>: -Vince- vince@COSC.GOV - GUS Mailing Lists Admin - http://www.COSC.GOV/~vince
:>
:>Uh... I hate to burst all your bubbles, but gatekeeper does too run a
:>portmapper, and they do too export their filesystems via NFS:
:>...
:>[/homes/rwpaul]:atlantis{34}# mount gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive /mnt
:>[/homes/rwpaul]:atlantis{35}# ls /mnt
:>00README-Legal-Rules-Regs contrib
Works for me too, over a 28.8 modem link even! I can even
cat the README files.
apollo:/root# mount gatekeeper.dec.com:/archive /gate
apollo:/root# ls /gate
.1 Index-bytime.Z
.4 README.ftp
.5 README.nfs
.6 README.www
.7 US-Legal-Regs-ITAR-NOTICE
...
I suppose it could be useful. Actually... hmm, my FreeBSD box
is doing a fair job of caching. I could get used to this :-)
-Matt
--
Matthew Dillon Engineering, BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
<dillon@best.com>, <dillon@apollo.best.com>
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