You can enter an IP address as a part of the Client or OtherClients attribute. If you specify an IP address, use the form a.b.c.d/32. Using this form of IP address prevents the monitor entry point from reporting a Share resource as offline even if the sharetab entry is present. This occurs on some SLES systems where the exportfs command tries to resolve the client IP address to the host name and rewrite the sharetab entry with the host name. If you specify the IP address as a.b.c.d/32, exportfs does not recognize this as an IP address and does not attempt to resolve the address to a host name.