[NTLUG:Discuss] NFS Server Timeout

[Eric Schnoebelen]

George Lass writes:
- Following a recent power outage that took down my NFS server I am
- no longer able to mount anything on that server, even from a client
- on the same local network.  On the client side the mount returns:
-  mount: RPC: Timed out
- 
- Running tcpdump on the server, I discovered that the mount response
- is not being sent until some 38 seconds after the mount request
- was received.  The client is timing out after 20 seconds.

[...]

- Any ideas?

It sounds like you've got a networking issue, possibly address
lookup, etc.

Tracing the execution of mountd or rpcbind might provide some
insight.

Do you have hostnames in your exports file?

If you are using hostnames, do you have working reverse address
maps?

Do you have working hostname to IP address maps?

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