NFS - DNS fail stops boot in mountlate
Doug Barton
dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 7 02:28:56 UTC 2011
On 01/06/2011 18:19, grarpamp wrote:
> So what was unclear?
I thought I probably understood your situation, but I wanted to be sure.
Not to mention the value of the more general point. :)
> mount_nfs emits a nonzero exit status upon failing to look
> up an FQDN causing mountlate to trigger a dump to shell
> on boot during rc processing. That's a *showstopper*.
The canonical answer to this is to either mount them by IP, or to put
the appropriate name in /etc/hosts. Depending on DNS for NFS mounts is
not recommended.
hth,
Doug
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