I get a "no DNS forward lookup" error message from my rpc.mountd when I try to mount an exported directory from a NFS Client machine. Pinging the machine using the full name.host.domain causes "unknown host" to show as result so I am guessing our DNS servers are not resolving the ip to name correctly but this is just a guess. Any ideas would be appreciated. kevin
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 23:47, Kevin Wilson wrote:
I get a "no DNS forward lookup" error message from my rpc.mountd when I try to mount an exported directory from a NFS Client machine. Pinging the machine using the full name.host.domain causes "unknown host" to show as result so I am guessing our DNS servers are not resolving the ip to name correctly but this is just a guess.
Looks like a pretty safe guess to me :)
To verify that this is the only problem, you could mount with the ip
address, the host name isn't mandatory.
mount -t nfs <ip-address>:/sharename /mountpoint
If that works then either add the hostname/ip to the file /etc/hosts, or
yell at your dns admin :)
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Anders Johansson
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