On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My response was a bit hasty I think.
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Robert Swan wrote:
> > One point is that the remote host is accessed through a VPN tunnel.
so as it turns out, this is the problem. The rpc_time call fails (I assume this is because it is not supported by the VPN) and this marks my only host as dead and automount does not attempt to mount. Even though the mount actually works fine.
Why? The rpc_ping connects to port 2049 on the target host.
You may be seeing a bug with the autofs mount code not trying a longer timeout if it fails to get a response in time.
The latest RedHat rpms may have the fix? Jeff, Chris?
There's a patch on kernel.org for it as well.
I made myself a little patch to overcome the problem. I think someone suggested that the rpc_ping stuff should be used to to rank the hosts, and that mount should try all of them before giving up. Seems like a good idea.
Mount will only try the hosts that autofs gives it.
We are going full circle. Before there were complaints about mounting taking to long so a heap of work was done on that. Just when that's almost working OK it looks like people are asking for the opposite.
If autofs can't connect to the RPC null procedure on the NFS port of the target host autofs won't ask mount to mount it.
Ian
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