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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
Subject: Re: bin/2430: mountd stops on loading if subnet mask is not defined in /etc/networks 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2430; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
To: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2430: mountd stops on loading if subnet mask is not defined in /etc/networks 
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 15:51:00 +0100

 In message <199701091337.AAA01791@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>, David Nugent writes:
 >
 >>Number:         2430
 >>Category:       bin
 >>Synopsis:       mountd stops on loading if subnet mask is not defined in /etc
 >/networks
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       serious
 >>Priority:       medium
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 >>State:          open
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan  9 05:40:00 PST 1997
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     David Nugent - davidn@blaze.net.au
 >>Organization:
 >Unique Computing, Melbourne, Australia
 >>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
 >>Environment:
 >
 >	Also occurs with 2.2-ALPHA and 2.2-BETA.
 >	NFS server enabled in /etc/sysconfig.
 >	/etc/exports uses -network and -mask options.
 >
 >>Description:
 >
 >	When /etc/exports contains an export for a subnet (example
 >	follows), /etc/rc freezes until ^C is hit (causing mountd
 >	not to load) if the appropriate subnet mask is not defined
 >	in /etc/networks.
 >
 >e.g.
 >	/usr/src -alldirs -maproot=0:0 -network=203.17.53.16 -mask 255.255.255.
 >240
 >
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 >
 >	Comment out your subnet mask in /etc/networks, make sure
 >	nfs server is enabled in /etc/sysconfig, reboot, watch
 >	/etc/rc stop as it attempts to load /sbin/mountd.
 
 I've seen this too, very annoying.
 
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