Re: NFS is working again, but problem not solved.

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:15:25 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote:

> On Sunday 03 August 2008 22:13, Andrew Reid wrote:
>> On Sunday 03 August 2008 13:36, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> > While mfs mounting wasn't working, our LAN was disconnected from the
>> > wider internet.  Although all the machines in question could talk to each
>> > other, the DSL link to the rest of the world was down because of ISP
>> > failure. Now it's up again, and NFS mounting works fine again.
>> >
>> > So why does nfs need access to the wider internet?
>>
>>   Does something in your exports file depend on a network
>> service?  NIS/LDAP database for host groups, name resolution
>> for allowed hosts, or for the NIS/LDAP host?
> 
>   Replying to myself here, I see that you already 
> mentioned /etc/exports uses IP numbers, so my guess has already
> been eliminated.
> 
Jest to erase all doubts, here is the /etc/exports file on april:

			-- A.
# /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported
#               to NFS clients.  See exports(5).
#/farhome        172.25.1.2(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 172.25.1.3(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 172.25.1.4(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 172.25.1.9(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 172.25.1.12(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)
172.25.1.32(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 172.25.1.33(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 172.25.1.6(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 172.25.1.8(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) 172.25.1.13(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)
/farhome         172.25.1.2(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) 172.25.1.3(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) 172.25.1.4(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) 172.25.1.9(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) 172.25.1.12(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) 172.25.1.32(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) 172.25.1.33(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) 172.25.1.6(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) 172.25.1.8(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) 172.25.1.13(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
/usr     172.25.1.4(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity)

Funny.  When I cut and pasted it into this page if but a line break in
front of the entry for 172.25.1.32 in teh commented-out line.  No such line
break appears in the actual file (I checked using emacs).  It inserted no
such line break in the non-commented-out lines.

-- hendrik