I've been using Debian 1.3.1 at my work for sharing my local SCSI disk with NFS. Everything worked ok until I upgraded to Debian 2.0. I did not changed anything in config files. My disk is shared with a Sun Solaris 2.5.x and 4 PCs (Debian Hamm). When activating NFS things work ok for a while (sometimes for 1 or 2 days) but suddenly (whitout apparent cause) the NFS stops working and all the computers (Sun, PCs...) hangs with the msg. "NFS server not responding. Stil triying...". Restarting the nfsd and mountd daemons will temporally solve this (until then NFSd goes crazy again).
When downgrading the package "netstd" to 2.16-1 (the one in Debian-bo)
the NFS works ok.
My local network is 193.144.131.0 (inm.es)
My IP is 193.144.131.181 (nostromo.inm.es)
Some strange messages in syslog:
Sep 29 12:43:15 nostromo nfsd[22224]: Could not bind name to socket
0.0.0.0:2049: Address already in use
Sep 29 12:43:15 nostromo nfsd[22224]: could not make a tcp socket
(this happens when restarting the NFS server. Some times I have
to restart it 2 or 3 times),
On the other hand when the NFS stops working I see no odd
msgs in my syslog (tty8 console), but the request of other computers
to access the disk via NFS and the acknowledge of my computer to this request
(the other computers does not seems to receive the request).
My config files:
/etc/exports:
# /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be
exported
# to NFS clients. See exports(5).
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts *.inm.es(ro)
/cmt teide(rw,no_root_squash)
/mac teide(rw,no_root_squash)
/izo 193.144.131.0/255.255.255.0(rw)
--- END of /etc/exports ---
/etc/hosts.allow
portmap: 193.144.131.0/255.255.255.0
portmap: 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0
ALL: .inm.es
--- END of /etc/hosts.allow
/etc/hosts.deny
ALL: PARANOID
--- END of /etc/hosts.deny
Regards,
-- Jose Rodriguez jrguez@inm.es Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia SPAIN