From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 3 7:47:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gadolinium.btinternet.com (gadolinium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A2FC37B419 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 07:47:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from host213-123-130-185.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([213.123.130.185] helo=there) by gadolinium.btinternet.com with smtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 16MA54-0004Q4-00; Thu, 03 Jan 2002 15:46:58 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dominic Marks To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk , Subject: Re: Mounting NFS share from Linux box? Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:47:40 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 03 January 2002 3:42 pm, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > hi all > > I don't know if this is the right forum, but I thought I'd try it > before asking the Linux guys... > > I'm trying to mount an NFS share. The server having the share is > running FreeBSD and the client Linux. What happens is that the > mount process on the Linux host goes defunct and stays like that > for around 2 minutes before succeding the mount... After that, it > all works fine. > > any knows why? 1. You might like to put the hostname of the FreeBSD box in the Linux boxes /etc/hosts if its taking time to resolve 2. Negoiation about which version of the NFS protocol to talk in (maybe you can force it) 3. Tried using tcpdump to see what sort of information, if any, the machines are exchanging? -- Dominic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message