can't connect to portmapper from remote host

[haek@hem.passagen.se]

Hello again debian-user!

As I was trying to set up NFS on a debian-potato-box at work ("agda" at 130.241.119.140) I found out that the remote host, that was to be the NFS client 194.236.111.14, could not connect to the portmapper on the server. The error message recieved was "No route to host". I know virtually nothing about the portmapper, but other network traffic had no problem to find its way through.

I have tried to change the settings in /etc/hosts.allow on the server but with no luck.

On 130:241.119.140 /etc/hosts.allow reads as follows:

portmap : 194.236.111.14
ALL : 127.0.0.1

I also found out that the server had problems with "localhost", it could not ping "localhost" from it self, but I simply added this line in /etc/hosts wich seemed to solve that one.

/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost
--there are more lines--

When I try rpcinfo from agda, it seems to running alright:

[12:24:20]hans@agda:~>rpcinfo -p
   program vers proto   port
    100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
    100000    2   udp    111  portmapper

But when I try "rpcinfo -p 130.241.119.140" from 194.236.111.14 I got that "No route to host" error message.

TIA

Hans Ekbrand