From: Donavan Pantke Subject: Re: RPC timeout errors Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 00:40:03 -0500 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <200211110040.03963.avatar@dcr.net> References: <02111100215404.06294@192.168.0.254> Reply-To: avatar@dcr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Return-path: Received: from ns1.dcr.net ([216.7.64.2] helo=andrew.dcr.net) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18B7If-0007pw-00 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 21:39:53 -0800 To: Kevin , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <02111100215404.06294@192.168.0.254> Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Monday 11 November 2002 00:21, Kevin wrote: > I am running an nfs server and client; bot machines having RedHat 7.1 > installed with kernel 2.4.2-2 and nfs-utils-0.3.1-5. The server seems > fine. Everything in my host files are perfect. Infact, i checked my > messages file in /var and it shows the server allowing an incoming nfs > connection from client 192.168.0.1. > > I have the following line in my /etc/fstab: > 192.168.0.254:/home/Fear /mnt/server1 nfs > rw,hard,intr 0 0 > > With that added, i used to be able to type mount -a and it would mount > everything in /etc/fstab. It tries to mount the nfs, but chokes up & g= ives > me the error "mount: RPC: Timed out". I followed every instruction loc= ated > in the Linux NFS HOWTO and it referred me to this e-mail for questions. > > Thanks for your time. > =09I've run into this before, and the problem is that the mount daemon is= trying=20 to reverse and forward resolve that IP address. If you dumped the client = and=20 server either in a DNS server or in the /etc/hosts file you should see an= =20 instanteanous mount. =09To everyone else: Is there a way of turing this off in the mount daemo= n? I=20 would like to have my auto-install scripts get to NFS without having to a= dd=20 DNS entries first. =09Hope this helps! =09Donavan Pantke ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs