There are also some general NFS troubleshooting suggestions here
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.commadmn/doc/commadmndita/nfs_troublesh.htm

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Michael Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Are you running iptables or some other firewall on the head node?
>
> If your switch is too smart, or if you are running on a university backbone
> network, they sometimes block NFS as well.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Joseph Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>> Yes this is what I have been trying to do - this is in the fstab and
>> when I do a mount -a or a mount of home I get the same error:
>>
>>  >> mount: mount to NFS server 'nfs_oscar' failed: System Error: No
>>  >     route to
>>  >     >> host.
>>
>> Michael Edwards wrote:
>> > Yes, on the client.  You might also try "mount nfs_oscar:/home /home"
>> > but it should pick that up from the fstab.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Joseph Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Do you mean on one of the compute nodes?
>> >
>> >     Michael Edwards wrote:
>> >     > What happens if you do "mount /home"?
>> >     >
>> >     > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Joseph Norris
>> >     <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >     > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>>
>> wrote:
>> >     >
>> >     >     Hi Diego,
>> >     >
>> >     >     Here is what I get:
>> >     >
>> >     >     [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ssh oscarnode2
>> >     >     Last login: Wed Aug 13 14:03:34 2008 from
>> >     madrid.ucmerced.edu <http://madrid.ucmerced.edu>
>> >     >     <http://madrid.ucmerced.edu>
>> >     >     [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# arp -an| grep 10.0.0.2
>> >     <http://10.0.0.2> <http://10.0.0.2>
>> >     >     ? (10.0.0.2 <http://10.0.0.2> <http://10.0.0.2>) at
>> >     00:1B:2F:CF:1E:66 [ether] on eth0
>> >     >     [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ping nfs_oscar
>> >     >     PING madrid.ucmerced.edu <http://madrid.ucmerced.edu>
>> >     <http://madrid.ucmerced.edu> (10.0.0.2 <http://10.0.0.2>
>> >     >     <http://10.0.0.2>) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> >     >     64 bytes from madrid.ucmerced.edu
>> >     <http://madrid.ucmerced.edu> <http://madrid.ucmerced.edu>
>> >     >     (10.0.0.2 <http://10.0.0.2> <http://10.0.0.2>): icmp_seq=1
>> >     ttl=64
>> >     >     time=0.149 ms
>> >     >     64 bytes from madrid.ucmerced.edu
>> >     <http://madrid.ucmerced.edu> <http://madrid.ucmerced.edu>
>> >     >     (10.0.0.2 <http://10.0.0.2> <http://10.0.0.2>): icmp_seq=2
>> >     ttl=64
>> >     >     time=0.200 ms
>> >     >     64 bytes from madrid.ucmerced.edu
>> >     <http://madrid.ucmerced.edu> <http://madrid.ucmerced.edu>
>> >     >     (10.0.0.2 <http://10.0.0.2> <http://10.0.0.2>): icmp_seq=3
>> >     ttl=64
>> >     >     time=0.215 ms
>> >     >     64 bytes from madrid.ucmerced.edu
>> >     <http://madrid.ucmerced.edu> <http://madrid.ucmerced.edu>
>> >     >     (10.0.0.2 <http://10.0.0.2> <http://10.0.0.2>): icmp_seq=4
>> >     ttl=64
>> >     >     time=0.224 ms
>> >     >
>> >     >
>> >     >     Diego M. Vadell wrote:
>> >     >     > Hi Joseph,
>> >     >     >    AFAIK "No route to host" means it doesn't even got an ARP
>> >     >     response.
>> >     >     > Can you retry and run "arp -an| grep 10.0.0.2
>> >     <http://10.0.0.2> <http://10.0.0.2>"
>> >     >     to see if it got the
>> >     >     > right MAC address? It's very strange that you can ping the
>> >     >     headnode from
>> >     >     > the compute node. Are you sure you are running "ping
>> >     nfs_oscar"?
>> >     >     What
>> >     >     > does "arp -an| grep 10.0.0.2 <http://10.0.0.2>
>> >     <http://10.0.0.2>" says after that?
>> >     >     >
>> >     >     > HTH,
>> >     >     >  -- Diego.
>> >     >     >
>> >     >     > Joseph Norris wrote:
>> >     >     >
>> >     >     >> off my node's fstab
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >> nfs_oscar:/home /home   nfs     rw      0       0
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >> when ssh to that node and do mount -a
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >> I get the following:
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >> mount: mount to NFS server 'nfs_oscar' failed: System
>> >     Error: No
>> >     >     route to
>> >     >     >> host.
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >> nfs is running
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >> I can ping headnode from compute node
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >> /etc/hosts on head node has
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >> 10.0.0.2 <http://10.0.0.2> <http://10.0.0.2>
>> >      madrid.ucmerced.edu <http://madrid.ucmerced.edu>
>> >     >     <http://madrid.ucmerced.edu> nfs_oscar
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >> headnode route table:
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags
>> Metric
>> >     >     Ref    Use
>> >     >     >> Iface
>> >     >     >> 10.0.0.0 <http://10.0.0.0> <http://10.0.0.0>
>> >      0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0> <http://0.0.0.0>
>> >     >         255.255.255.0 <http://255.255.255.0>
>> >     <http://255.255.255.0>   U     0      0        0
>> >     >     eth1
>> >     >     >> 169.236.128.0 <http://169.236.128.0>
>> >     <http://169.236.128.0>   0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0> <http://0.0.0.0>
>> >     >             255.255.254.0 <http://255.255.254.0>
>> >     <http://255.255.254.0>   U     0      0
>> >     >        0 eth0
>> >     >     >> 169.254.0.0 <http://169.254.0.0> <http://169.254.0.0>
>> >     0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0> <http://0.0.0.0>
>> >     >           255.255.0.0 <http://255.255.0.0> <http://255.255.0.0>
>> >         U     0      0        0
>> >     >     eth1
>> >     >     >> 224.0.0.0 <http://224.0.0.0> <http://224.0.0.0>
>> >     0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0> <http://0.0.0.0>
>> >     >         240.0.0.0 <http://240.0.0.0> <http://240.0.0.0>       U
>> >         0      0        0 eth1
>> >     >     >> 0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0> <http://0.0.0.0>
>> >     169.236.128.1 <http://169.236.128.1>
>> >     >     <http://169.236.128.1>   0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0>
>> >     <http://0.0.0.0>         UG    0
>> >     >          0        0 eth0
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >> Is there something that I am missing?
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >>
>> >     >     >
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