Nfs mount problem -AIX 5.3 on IPV-6 configuration

[vibha123]

Hi,
I am facing problem to mount nfs dir.
Able to export the dir,
exportfs shows the exported dir. but when I use
mount hostname:/dir /dir1
gives an error
In this case I am using IPV-6 ip address of the host..

mount 3ffe:80c0:22c:101:209:6bff:fe2e:7b65:/mnt /nfs

mount: 3ffe not in hosts database
mount: giving up on:
3ffe:80c0:22c:101:209:6bff:fe2e:7b65:/mnt
No route to host

can any one thro some light on it..?

TIA
Prathibha

 

[p5wizard]

mount can't cope with the IP6 type address because of the colon character which is used as node - pathname separator

from man page:

-n Node
Specifies the remote node that holds the directory to be mounted.
For NFS version 4 mounts only, the node can be specified as a
colon-separated IPv6 address. If this is done with the
node:directory format, the colon-separated IPv6 address must be
enclosed in square brackets.

so:

mount [3ffe:80c0:22c:101:209:6bff:fe2e:7b65]:/mnt /nfs

or mount -n 3ffe:80c0:22c:101:209:6bff:fe2e:7b65 /mnt /nfs

I would guess...


HTH,

p5wizard