On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:43:06PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:41:04 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:27:01AM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:15:25 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > >> > >> > > [snip] > > > >> /usr 172.25.1.4(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) > > > > what about map_identity ? you using nis/ldap ? > > Not that I'm aware of. Not unless Debian introduced it without telling > me. They don't sound like services I could be using without being aware > of it, but ... is there an easy way of telling whether they are operating? just a guess, I was presuming that mapping looks at names not numbers, if that is the case then a lookup needs to be done. > > Incidentally, while the NFS outage happened, I set up shadow (the NFS > client above) to serve one of its partitions to another machine on the > net, and that worked, so it looks as if the problem was specific to april > as NFS server (or shadow as NFS client). Now what's different about > april is: > It's an AMD64 running in 64-bit mode. > It is running etch/stable. All the others are running lenny. > The partition being shared out is an LLVM partition on RAID1. > Is it conceivable that the kernel NFS server in etch fails to start up > without DNS being available to interpret the configuration file, even if > no domain names appear in it? > > If there's any chance of it, I might be able to reproduce the situation > that obtained on Saturday on by shutting off the DSL modem and serving > NFS from another machine that's dual-boot etch and lenny. It that works > (i.e.failes properly) it will probably be an etch-specific problem, and > the looming upgrade of our server to lenny will fix the problem. maybe if you can, either turn on dns logging or run tcpdump -pni <interface> --port 53 -c 100 (this will capture the first 100 dns enquiries and see what it is trying to resolve how does you /etc/hosts.allow look > > -- hendrik > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "One thing is clear, is relations between America and Russia are good, and they're important that they be good." - George W. Bush 07/15/2006 Strelna, Russia
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