Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 08:11:06 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: NFS stable before release? Message-ID: <XFMail.980904081106.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <19980903192610.36464@futuresouth.com>
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On 04-Sep-98 Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > (trim, CC's, trim!) > > On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 09:39:49AM +0930, Greg Lehey woke me up to tell me: >> >> I haven't been able to use NFS between two specific systems for about >> two months now. It seems to be related to mount: mounts will only >> succeed about one time out of three. If they don't succeed, a second >> attempt will invariably hang the machine. It's unrelated to the >> system running on the client machine (2.2.[567] or -CURRENT), and >> other machines can mount on the server machine with no problems. I've >> tried changing just about everything on the client machine, including >> the Ethernet board, but the problem remains. About the only thing I >> could think of is the cable length between the machines, but that >> hasn't changed. I've done some tcpdump traces which show that the >> server is returning a "port not reachable" error, but I haven't had >> time to follow all the way through the stack. If anybody has some >> ideas on this one, I'd be really pleased to help fix it. > > I had this problem a good bit a while back. > Not quite sure how I solved it... but it was one of these > A) portmapper problem; kill and restart the nfsd's/nfsiod's > B) DNS problem; specify export by IP address > There also the fact the NFS library binds the rpc code to the the _first_ interface that is marked as being up. This can be a problem if it is, for example, a point to point interface port with nothing on the other end. I posted some pr's and to -hackers about 1year ago on this. Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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