Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 19:26:10 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS stable before release? Message-ID: <19980903192610.36464@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <19980904093949.N606@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 09:39:49AM %2B0930 References: <199809030541.AAA02169@home.dragondata.com> <9872.904807024@time.cdrom.com> <19980904093949.N606@freebie.lemis.com>
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(trim, CC's, trim!) On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 09:39:49AM +0930, Greg Lehey woke me up to tell me: > > I haven't been able to use NFS between two specific systems for about > two months now. It seems to be related to mount: mounts will only > succeed about one time out of three. If they don't succeed, a second > attempt will invariably hang the machine. It's unrelated to the > system running on the client machine (2.2.[567] or -CURRENT), and > other machines can mount on the server machine with no problems. I've > tried changing just about everything on the client machine, including > the Ethernet board, but the problem remains. About the only thing I > could think of is the cable length between the machines, but that > hasn't changed. I've done some tcpdump traces which show that the > server is returning a "port not reachable" error, but I haven't had > time to follow all the way through the stack. If anybody has some > ideas on this one, I'd be really pleased to help fix it. I had this problem a good bit a while back. Not quite sure how I solved it... but it was one of these A) portmapper problem; kill and restart the nfsd's/nfsiod's B) DNS problem; specify export by IP address *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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