Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 05:57:25 +0100 From: Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@idt.ntnu.no> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: exports rpc time out Message-ID: <199612010457.FAA13686@pat.idt.unit.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Nov 1996 00:44:47 -0800 (PST)" References: <199611300844.AAA00959@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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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
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