Bug#441361: no support for NFS (v3) mount over IPv6?

[Steve Langasek]

Package: nfs-common
Version: 1:1.1.1~git-20070709-3
Severity: important
Tags: ipv6

After rolling out IPv6 on my home network, I've taken a peek at whether I
could switch my NFS shares to IPv6 as well, which would let me simplify my
DNS resolution a bit.

But mount.nfs doesn't find  records for hosts, and it also can't parse
numeric IPv6 addresses on account of all the colons.

A similar problem affects exportfs on the server side:

  exportfs: invalid netmask `48' for 2001:4830:1244::

Thanks,
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Bug#441361: no support for NFS (v3) mount over IPv6?

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

severity 441361 wishlist
thanks

On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 12:11:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> After rolling out IPv6 on my home network, I've taken a peek at whether I
> could switch my NFS shares to IPv6 as well, which would let me simplify my
> DNS resolution a bit.
> 
> But mount.nfs doesn't find  records for hosts, and it also can't parse
> numeric IPv6 addresses on account of all the colons.

Well, the kernel doesn't support NFS over IPv6. There's work being done in
that direction (for instance, very recently the RPC client got IPv6 support,
and both the NFS client and server is slowly being moved to a
transport-independent system, the "transport switch"), but you simply cannot
expect this to work on Linux at this stage. :-/

Believe me, when upstream adds support, Debian will be among the first
distributions to support it, but for now, I cannot really see how this should
be a bug of severity important.

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