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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Is this a bug with exportfs?
Message-ID: <337@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 1 Mar 90 01:13:42 GMT
References: <6537@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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In article <6537@hydra.gatech.EDU> flur@duke.gatech.edu (Peter W. Flur) writes:
|I seem to have found an interesting quirk.  I have a SparcSTation/1
|trying to mount a partition of my NeXT machine.  Both machines
|are running off a nameserver, and hence really don't have any
|entries in their hosts file (ni database on the next).  I figured
|out by trial and error that the host that is mounting the NeXT 
|partition can only mount if its host name is in the hosts file
|and the ni database on the NeXT.  
|
|Is this supposed to work this way?

Nope.  I've done exactly what you've described with DNS alone.
Are you using a fully-qualified domain name in /etc/exports?
(If not, try it.)

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