On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:18:34PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Now, I need to set up a separate partition for a 7.0 server test > system where I can test nfs-server and dhcp-server - the longest > part will be sorting out my scripts to do only what is desirable! > In fact, the longest part was banging my head against the wall while testing :-( It's working now, but along the way the results were very intermittent and iffy - a lot of the old 'getfh failed' messages in the server logs (i.e. "something is wrong somewhere"), mostly fixed by rebooting the server. This is with an old client on an LFS-6.7+ system using portmap.
ISTR that my previous tests of nfs setups tended to be equally problematic, so perhaps it's all as good as ever. However, there are two points worth noting here: 1. the test server is also a client of my main server - running both nfs-client and nfs-server bootscripts together gives misleading messages because one of the programs is already running - statd, I think. Using only the server bootscript is enough for both client and server to work. 2. rpcbind is a lot more sensitive to the layout of hosts.allow than portmap. I've already noted that for the client I need rpcbind: 127. - for my server which needs incoming connections as well as outgoing from itself as a client, the working version is rpcbind: 192.168.0. 127. the alternative rpcbind: 127. 192.168.0. does not work! Unfortunately, hosts_allow (5) is not tremendously well documented - a couple of 'in.something' examples, and use of 'LOCAL' (which didn't seem to work for me), but nothing to really explain all the variations. I also found a report somewhere that rpcbind needs numbers not names for the addresses. Somewhere along the way, lynx wasn't working on the server install - it's possible that rpcbind was implicated there too, but now the testing is complete I don't intend to pursue that. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
