Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:58:57 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Rod Person <rod.person@hotpop.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NFS mount problem - can't get net id for host Message-ID: <20030629125857.GA22486@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030629082253.2bc0f6db.rod.person@hotpop.com> References: <20030629082253.2bc0f6db.rod.person@hotpop.com>
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 08:22:53AM -0400, Rod Person wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a nfs share on my server. I'm trying to connect from
> a laptop to that share. The laptops ip address is assigned via dhcp.
>=20
> I try to connect to the share with the command
> mount -v servername:/mountpoint /mnt
>=20
> and get the error: nfs: can't get net id for host
This error occurs when mount_nfs(8) has attempted to look up your
server's hostname and resolve it into one or more IP numbers first via
inet_addr(3) and failing that then via gethostbyname(3), and still
hasn't managed to get an IP number.
Try putting the hostname and IP number of your server into /etc/hosts
on your client machine, or configure your client machine to use a DNS
machine that knows about your server.
Cheers,
Matthew
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