Thanks for the info, the problem turned out to be the DNS, but it is all better now.
cheers, Lonnie > Lonnie -- > > "it just seems to "hang"" is a bit too imprecise to make a good > starting point. So I'll just take a wild shot at it -- might you > have left in /etc/exports an entry for a hostname or IP address > that is now unresolvable? If so, that would introduce a 3-minute > delay at the point where you say the system "hangs". > > More generally, do the Mandrake systems *ever* resume init'ing? > Operationally, "ever" means wait about 5 minutes before deciding > that they are completely blocked. Then see if a ^C will cause > boot/init to resume. > > If you can get the boot/init sequence to complete, do the logs > report anything interesting? > > Whatever is going on, your LEAF router is extremely unlikely to > be involved (unless you need access to an off-LAN nameserver that > you now cannot reach, or unless you were exporting to off-LAN > hosts). > > At 11:18 PM 1/26/02 -0500, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: >>Hello All, >> >>I have just installed an EigerStein LRP firewall and it seems to >>be working good, but.... >> >>I have 6 machines which were NFS mounting and exporting various >>directories before I put them behind the firewall so that they >>could cross communicate. They worked just fine at that time with >>the NFS. >> >>I then put them behind the Eigersten LRP firewall and changed all >>of their /etc/hosts files so reflect the new IP's on each machine >>and so that each machine could lookup the name of the other >>machine from their hosts file. >> >>The problem now is that when the NFS daemon is started on each >>machine, it just seems to "hang" after reporting "Starting the >>NFS daemon". >> >>My OS on these machines is Linux Mandrake 8.1. >> >>does anyone have any idea as to what is happening here and how I >>might be able to fix it? > > -- > ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- > Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo > Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- Lonnie Cumberland OutStep Technologies Incorporated (313) 832-7366 URL: http://www.outstep.com EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
