The following list describes how to specify clients by name, and not an IP address.
- Full Qualified Domain Name Required.
Be sure to specify the fully qualified domain name of the client. For example, use aclient.dept.example.com rather than simply aclient.
- Leading Wildcard Allowed.
To specify a partial name, a single wildcard, located at the start of the name, may be used.
- Export Options Change Requires Remount.
When the client mounts the NFS export, it determines which export option to apply to a specific client. Subsequent changes to DNS, WINS, or NIS that would resolve the client’s IP address to a different computer name are only applied to mounted exports when the client unmounts the exports and then remounts them.
- Name Service Order is Significant.
Application of export options to a client’s mount request may be affected by the order in which the system applies DNS, WINS, and NIS information to resolve IP addresses. The first service in name order sequence that can resolve the client name supplies the name and searches configuration options for the export.