From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Feb 28 23: 4:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from web14607.mail.yahoo.com (web14607.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAB2937B417 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:04:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020301070445.87381.qmail@web14607.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [61.11.21.103] by web14607.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:04:45 PST Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:04:45 -0800 (PST) From: Balaji To: rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca, brent.callaghan@sun.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Respected Sir, I have two NFS servers acting as backups for each other. We are working in FreeBSD. Now when a server fails, the other server takes over the IP address of the failed server on a different Network Interface. But, now the clients of the failed server are not able to mount from the backup server inspite of the fact that the mountpoint permissions are satisfied in /etc/exports. The NFS mountpoints are shared by both servers. I cannot afford to kill and restart the nfsds. I run a "kill -s HUP 'cat /var/run/mountd.pid'" after combining the exports files of both the servers. But still this does not work. How can I bind the nfsds to the new IP address without restarting them? If I try to run more nfsds by binding them to the new IP address, it gives me a "can't bind udp adress: address already in use" error. And still the nfs clients cannot mount the NFS exported partitions. Plz help. Awaiting your reply. Yours Sincerely, Balaji. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message