From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 02:28:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E0C106564A for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 02:28:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67B458FC0A for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 02:28:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 15284 invoked by uid 399); 7 Jan 2011 02:28:54 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO doug-optiplex.ka9q.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 7 Jan 2011 02:28:54 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4D267A65.3080005@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:28:53 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101210 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grarpamp References: <4D2663AE.2080805@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS - DNS fail stops boot in mountlate X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:28:56 -0000 On 01/06/2011 18:19, grarpamp wrote: > So what was unclear? I thought I probably understood your situation, but I wanted to be sure. Not to mention the value of the more general point. :) > mount_nfs emits a nonzero exit status upon failing to look > up an FQDN causing mountlate to trigger a dump to shell > on boot during rc processing. That's a *showstopper*. The canonical answer to this is to either mount them by IP, or to put the appropriate name in /etc/hosts. Depending on DNS for NFS mounts is not recommended. hth, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/