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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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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


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