NFS problems anyone?

[David A. Bandel]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:12 AM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've seen this.  In my case, running exportfs showed me the problem
>> and subsequently running exportfs -a solved it (and exportfs showed
>> more exports).
>
> Thanks for the tip, David. It turns out that the problem was even
> simpler. The aging switch serving the ports for the problem servers
> was failing badly. Since the principle connection (after establishing
> bona fides) works via UDP, the client was getting no response from the
> server with no error messages. I'm not a developer, but it seems
> rather poor form to issue a message "permission denied" when the
> actual problem was "no response received". Sigh, lots of time wasted.

Unfortunately, you don't always get great error messages (how about:
the printer's on fire -- and it never is).  Glad you found this one.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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