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From: stesin@elvisti.ua (Andrey Stesin)
Subject: [?!] inetd[73]: mountd/udp server failed (looped) ...
Organization: Elektronni Visti
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 1994 12:28:52 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Feb01.122852.15294@elvisti.ua>
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Hello!

I've got a strange trouble when trying to do NFS mount request.
There are 2 computers under FreeBSD 1.0.2 on ethernet.
The first has larger disk, and I want it to be NFS mounted to cheaper machine.

First (larger) machine has a line

/usr	-root=32767

in /etc/exports. All other configuration files in /etc are untouched from
the installation, the only addition: Sun rpc.pcnfsd 2.0 is running with a
sample configuration, /etc/rpc slightly changed because of this.

Now I'm issueing a command on the second machine:

mount -t nfs 193.125.28.16:/usr /mnt

It sleeps for a minute, then answers: 
BAD MNT RPC: RPC: Timed out

But the filesystem appears to be mounted! I can use it normally from the client
machine.

Half a minute after this so called 'mount' :) on the server's console one can
read a message (repeated 3 times):

Feb 1 12:00:00 peak inetd[73]: mountd/udp server failing (looping), service
terminated

The filesystem is still exported, client may work with it, but now
a command 'ps -ax | grep mountd' on the server shows a large number of mountd-s running!
Looks like:

	   56 ?? Is 	0:00:04 mountd
	   98 ?? Is	0:00:03 mountd
	  100 ?? Is	0:00:02 mountd
	  102 ?? Is	0:00:02 mountd
	  104 ?? Is	0:00:02 mountd
[...]
	  172 ?? Is	0:00:02 mountd
	  174 ?? Is	0:00:02 mountd
	  176 ?? Is	0:00:02 mountd

4 'nfsd' daemons and 4 'nfsiod' daemons are still running too, but 'inetd'
daemon dies with core dump.

Please, wouldn't you be so kind to explain me - what does it mean and
what I'm doing wrong? I think this situation isn't normal ;)

	With best regards		Andrew Stesin, Kiev, Ukraine.