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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:55:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: allen campbell <allenc@verinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Cannot perform NFS mount
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On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, allen campbell wrote:

> I have been trying to resolve a problem with NFS and FreeBSD and
> I have finally come to the point where I have to ask for help.  I
> believe I have covered all of the obvious bases and I have simply
> run of ideas.
> 
> I wish to perform an NFS mount.  The NFS server in question is
> www.caldera.com.  This is a public NFS server.
> 
> To make a long story short, I have found that RPC operations fail
> when performed as root:
> 
> struct> su
> Password:
> # mount -t nfs rim.caldera.com:/OpenLinux-Lite-1.2 /mnt
> NFS Portmap: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out
> 
> (... the timeout repeats several times, approx. once a minute.)

Works fine here.  Do you have portmap running on your machine?  

It's dog slow, portmap may be timing out.

>    program vers proto   port
>     100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
>     100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
>     100005    1   udp   2048  mountd
>     100005    2   udp   2048  mountd
>     100005    1   tcp   2048  mountd
>     100005    2   tcp   2048  mountd
>     100003    2   udp   2049  nfs
>     100003    2   tcp   2049  nfs

I confirm ths output .. 

> 
> I have configured this host properly: nfs_client_enable,
> nfs_server_enable and portmap_enable are all assigned YES in rc.conf.
> I have confirmed that mountd, nfsd, mfsiod and portmap are all
> running.  The kernel is compiled with NFS support. 

Did you reboot since changing those?  What kind of link are you going
over?

NFS over the Internet is a Bad Idea.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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