hi rowell,
the delay was only annoying, not a show stopper :).
i would just wait and it'd connect eventually.
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 16:38, Rowel Atienza wrote:
> 1) slow network between client and server (eg client/server
> connected by a slow link)
no. am on a LAN and there's no activity.
> 2) too many processes accessing the server disk
no. nothing happening on either client or server (well,
nothing interesting or heavy, anyway).
> 3) if you are automounting a home dir, it is possible the
> client can not access your auto_home info from your name service.
uh. not sure what that means. in exports i have something like:
/some_directory <ipNumberHere>(ro,sync,no_root_squash)
> 4) reverse DNS is another possible cause. normally for security
> reasons as well, client info are stored in /etc/hosts of the server.
i've got the IP and name in /etc/hosts of server. but i don't think
the real reverse DNS works. so it would just time out if that's what
the deal is. is there any way to disable reverse DNS lookup on
the server?
> 5) your rpc server may have problems running the services for nfs. A
> case of a badly configured firewall maybe.
no. tested with all policies set to accept and no nat. still slow.
huh. well, maybe some more reading is required :).
thanks.
tiger
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