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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!netcom.net.uk!peer.news.u-net.net!yama.mcc.ac.uk!basilisk.pdc.nhs.gov.uk!peernews.ftech.net!telehouse1.frontier-networks.co.uk!pavilion!core!joe From: joe@core.pavilion.co.uk (Josef Karthauser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NFS struggles Date: 11 Mar 1997 21:53:42 GMT Organization: Pavilion Internet plc Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5g4k96$2ar@zebedee.pavilion.net> References: <5flph7$dmb@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> <Pine.OSF.3.95.970309163850.7119B-100000@alpha1.phoenix.net> <5g1n68$sqr@news.aero.org> <Pine.OSF.3.95.970310153518.2362A-100000@alpha1.phoenix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: core.pavilion.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36913 Paul Flores (pflores@phoenix.net) wrote: : -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- : I have noticed that with some UDP-based services (like time ) that the : system will reply from the 'real' IP address of the interface, as : opposed to replying from the 'alias' IP address. Since it does not affect : every service the same way, I tend to think it is a problem with the : application more than the OS. Somewhere in the dusty source of NFS, is : probably a call to an interface, and it doesn't know/understand how to : respond via an alias interface... It seems to be a kernel bug. If you call named on an ip alias it will reply from the alias and the real ip address. Joe --- Josef Karthauser (joe@pavilion.net) Technical Manager [Tel: +44 1273 607072 Fax: +44 1273 607073] Pavilion Internet plc. ._ .. _. _ ._.. .. .._. . __. ._. ._ _. _..