From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 17 9:44: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4DBC37B424 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:44:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8HGi2712828; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:44:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:44:02 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Zhenhai Duan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing NFS. Message-ID: <20000917094402.K15156@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from duan@cs.umn.edu on Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 11:34:18AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Zhenhai Duan [000917 09:34] wrote: > Hi, > > I have NFS server runing on a Redhat 6.1 system, and want to make > a Freebsd system to be a client. I configured sucessfully with FreeBSD 4.1 > but failed on both FreeBSD 3.3 and 3.4. The message that was printed out > at the system booting time is: > > can not get net it for host. > However, if I do a > > mount -a > > after the system is booted, all the NFS systems are mounted sucessfully > from the server to the client. Can anyone give me some ideas? Most likely DNS isn't working, there isn't really enought info here for me to diagnose further, my only guess is that you're not configuring your ethernet interfaces correctly. How did you setup networking on the box? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message