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Subject: Re: exports rpc time out
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Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 05:57:25 +0100
From: Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@idt.ntnu.no>
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> I'm not sure if this is an NIS/YP problem, but here it goes.  When I
> have a long export list, "showmount -e" doesn't work:
> 
> ===
> ## showmount -e 
> RPC: Timed outCan't do Exports rpc
> ===
> 
> /etc/exports isn't that big but it uses some netgroups, each of which
> expands to a few dozen hostnames.  The exporting itself seems to be
> working ok, it's just that I can't see the list with showmount.

I've experienced two reasons for showmount -e timeouts:

1. Performance problems with mountd
   
2. The (expanded) export list beeing too long for udp based rpc.

   Changing showmount to use tcp based rpc (if the service is
   available) fixes this.

- Tor Egge