Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:17:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS stable before release? Message-ID: <19980904101738.Q606@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980903192610.36464@futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 07:26:10PM -0500 References: <199809030541.AAA02169@home.dragondata.com> <9872.904807024@time.cdrom.com> <19980904093949.N606@freebie.lemis.com> <19980903192610.36464@futuresouth.com>
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On Thursday, 3 September 1998 at 19:26:10 -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > (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 That wouldn't explain why I have no trouble with three clients, only with one. > B) DNS problem; specify export by IP address No, there are no DNS problems. The NFS server is also running the primary name server, and all machines are in the same IP block. If there were problems, they wouldn't just hit one machine. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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