Re: OT - NFS through firewalls

2002-03-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:46:18PM -0900, Christopher Swingley wrote: David, The NFS box is one of many machines that have real IP addresses, and are connected to the Internet. The clients are cluster nodes joined Isn't this a security risk? NFS servers should never have public IP

OT - NFS through firewalls

2002-03-28 Thread Christopher Swingley
I've got a setup like this: +--+ ++ |NFS | 10.0.0.20|Firewall| 192.168.1.1 ++ |Server|--||+-|Client 1| +--+10.0.0.38 ++|192.168.1.7 ++

Re: OT - NFS through firewalls

2002-03-28 Thread David Wright
With the setup you describe, I don't believe you should even be able to ping the NFS server from the clients, much less mount a volume. Try it! The trouble is that there is no way for the NFS server to address a client; so while a packet might get to from a client, there is no way it can send a

Re: OT - NFS through firewalls

2002-03-28 Thread Christopher Swingley
David, * David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-Mar-28 12:19 AKST]: With the setup you describe, I don't believe you should even be able to ping the NFS server from the clients, much less mount a volume. Try it! I can ping the NFS server, and mount the NFS drive. Both work because the clients