Request for mount_nfs assistance

[peter at vfemail.net]

At 09:37 PM 4/20/2010, Adam Vande More wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:53 PM, <peter at vfemail.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not certain what an RPC connection is, but I assume it's some type of
>> flow of data.
>>
>> Nothing referring to RPC appears in either machine's logs.  Not a lot of
>> activity occurs on the file server at 192.168.0.244.  It's primary purpose
>> in life is to act as a file server for the machine at 192.168.0.252, which
>> is the machine having difficulty connecting.  It's worked flawlessly for
>> years.  The time-out problem is something that's appeared in the past week.
>>
>> I'm using a stale version of FreeBSD, but why would that cause mount_nfs to
>> suddenly start timing out?
>
>
>can you post /var/log/messages from after a timeout issue.  Is the system
>slow in other areas?  Perhaps you have a failing drive.

Nothing but "/kernel: Connection attempt to UDP" gets logged on either machine.  Neither machine seems to be slower than usual doing any other task.