Unable to mount NFS share through IPV6 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

mount or even showmount of a NFS share over an IPv6 interface is not working.

# showmount -e fd57:9XXX:XXXX:XXXX::XXXX
showmount: can't get address for fd57:9XXX:XXXX:XXXX::XXXX

# mount -vv [fd57:9XXX:XXXX:XXXX::XXXX]:/vol/share1 /mnt
mount: no type was given - I'll assume nfs because of the colon
mount: can't get address for [fd57

# mount -vv -t nfs [fd57:9XXX:XXXX:XXXX::XXXX]:/vol/share1 /mnt
mount: can't get address for [fd57

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • IPV6

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