> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:49:53AM -0500, Viren Patel > wrote: >> > >> > What does ^T show for the status of the 'hung' >> process? >> > Are you >> > certain that DNS resolution is working correctly on >> both >> > machines? >> > >> > Kris >> > >> > >> >> Thanks for your help. Interestingly when I tried the >> mounts this morning they all worked, so I can't provide >> ^T >> output. Go figure. >> >> Since my clients and the server are communicating over a >> private LAN, they don't use DNS. However >> /etc/nsswitch.conf contains: >> >> hosts: files dns >> >> and in /etc/hosts I have: >> >> 127.0.0.1 localhost >> 192.168.0.10 backuphost >> >> The problem occurred whether I used IP or hostname. I've >> also noticed that mount_nfs tended to succeed if >> preceded >> by a ping to the backuphost. I rebooted a client and >> tried >> mounting without ping and it worked just fine. It's all >> behaving really flakily. Basically it amounts to >> sometimes >> it works and sometimes it doesn't and there doesn't seem >> to be a pattern. > > Are you sure they're not using DNS? i.e. will DNS queries > to those > hostnames resolve? Have you observed the data traffic > using tcpdump > to confirm no DNS lookups? > > Kris > >
I am not sure why the client would try to use DNS to resolve backuphost if I've specified it in /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf specifically says to look at the files first. I haven't done a tcpdump but I will try that and report back. Viren _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"