RPC timeout errors
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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 & gives me the error "mount: RPC: Timed out". I followed every instruction located in the Linux NFS HOWTO and it referred me to this e-mail for questions.
Thanks for your time.
Kevin
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Quoted 6 lines · Kevin
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.
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I have the following line in my
/etc/fstab:
192.168.0.254:/home/Fear/mnt/server1nfs
rw,hard,intr 0 0With 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
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me the error "mount: RPC: Timed out". I followed every instruction loc=
ated
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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
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Quoted 4 lines · Donavan Pantke
I've run into this before, and the problem is that the mount daemon is trying to reverse and forward resolve that IP address. If you dumped the client and server either in a DNS server or in the
/etc/hostsfile you should see an instanteanous mount.
Interesting.
We have ~80 nfs clients and since adding the last 30 we got the problem that when a lot of users are using the system we often get "RPC: timed out" on a lot of machines, but in the server lot nothing looks wrong. Maybe I should try setting up an additional nameserver on the nfs server because the machine currently running the nameserver is an old sun ultra1 enterprise...
We also experienced a weird problem where after everything was running fine for a few days the server would refuse mounts to some clients with "getfh failed" and you'd have to exportfs -rav to get it working again...
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