7:48 p.m.
Thanks Daniel.
That makes sense. Will check accordingly.
Thanks & Regards,
Suhrud
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 7:23 PM Daniel Gryniewicz <dang(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> No, Ganesha doesn't do a hostname to ip conversion at all. Instead,
> when a client connects, it takes the IP address from the packet, and
> does a reverse lookup on that to get the hostname. It then uses this
> hostname to check the configured netgroups to see if it's allowed. The
> IP to hostname is cached, so if a host changes it's *name* (but keeps
> the same IP address) it will always be treated as the original hostname,
> but changing the IP address should work, as the new address will show up
> and be resolved to the original name.
>
> Note that if this address had a different name before, and that address
> was used by a client to connect to Ganesha, then the cache will have
> that original IP to name mapping, and that will continue to be used.
>
> Daniel
>
> On 01/17/2019 04:29 AM, Suhrud Patankar wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > How does Ganesha handle the DNS-IP change for client?
> >
> > I have given access permission to a client based on its DNS name.
> > There is a case when the client changes the IP address and updates the
> > DNS server.
> > However, I think Ganesha does the DNS lookup only at the time of the
> > config parsing.
> >
> > The access permissions do not work for the client which has changed
> > its IP address.
> >
> > What is the best way to handle this?
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Suhrud
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