/etc/exports and IPv6 networks

[Doug Barton]

Sean C. Farley wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
>> Folks,
>>
>> I spent a fair amount of time today reading through the man pages and
>> source code and could not find any way of specifying an IPv6 network
>> in /etc/exports as you can with v4 and -network/-netmask. Am I missing
>> something? If not, is this an update that is on someone's list
>> somewhere?
> 
> Something like this has worked for me:
> /usr -maproot=root -network AAAA:BBBB:CCCC:DDDD:EEEE:: -mask ::0

I confess that's one combination I didn't think to try, and it did
work, thanks! Care to add that to the man page?

> One thing I have run into was that an install of a kernel over NFS using
> IPv6 can stall the mount.  I have not had time to look into it, so I do
> not know what exactly triggers it (number of bytes or files?).  It has
> always been while copying a kernel module.

Wacky. Is this still true after the recent (before the 7.0 branch)
work to make v6 stuff "work the same way as" v4 stuff?

Doug

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