Domain names & /etc/exports

[Mark Litwack]

> It's a mountd misfeature.  What happens is this:
>
>	- mounted receives a request from a.b.c.d (address)
>	- it looks up the address to get the name
>	- it matches the string it gets back against the names
>		in the exports file

Not quite.  The name that is matched is the name that the requesting
machine sends the server.  It's strange to do the security check this
way because a requesting machine could lie about its name.

You have to start /etc/mountd with the -i option to make it verify
the IP address as described above (which is not the DEC default).

-mark