[plug] slow to mount nfs, Gentoo <- Debian

[Denis Brown]

At 13:15 8/07/2004 +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, quoth Denis Brown:
>
> > The command (mount) just hangs in the terminal window.   ctrl-C's, ctrl-D's
> > etc do not get my command prompt back.
>[...]
> > After about five minutes the mountpoint suddenly has the shared directory
>
>Sounds like you are not running portmap
>
>try running /sbin/portmap (or wherever it is) on your Gentoo machine
>before running the mount command.  Install portmap if you haven't got it

Sigh!   Bingo.   Portmap must be installed and run by default in Debian, so 
I never thought about that in Gentoo-land.   Gentoo installs portmap but it 
is not run by default.  Added /etc/hosts.allow (very restrictive) and 
/etc/hosts.deny files and all is sweet.

Thanks, Matt!

Denis



>Regards,
>
>  - Matt
>
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