On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 21:21 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Trond,
>
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > They are probably trying to ping the server with a NULL procedure call
> > to test for service availability. We should allow that particular
> > usage...
>
> Thanks, that sounds likely. Can you give some hints as to how a NULL
> procedure call might appear? Would testing for prog==0 and/or proc==0 be
> appropriate?
I can't see that authorising calls to prog==0 could ever be useful (what
would that mean?), but proc==0 is another matter: that is precisely the
NULL procedure call that I mentioned above.
Cheers,
Trond
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