[Solved] Re: Trouble Mounting NFS Share

[Tom H]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Aryan Ameri <info at ameri.me> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Regendoerp, Achim
> <Achim.Regendoerp at galacoral.com> wrote:
>>
>> Chances are the local router you removed provided a host name for a lookup
>> for them machines, adding the machines to their respective /etc/hosts may
>> solve it, as apparently NFS does a reverse DNS lookup (info found here:
>> http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?7270-NFS-mount-times-out&p=29064&viewfull=1#post29064)
>
> Thanks very much for that. Adding the client's name and IP to the server's
> hosts file solved the problem. I didn't know about NFS's reverse hookup and
> hadn't come across that thread. Thanks for your help

Linux and Unix do reverse dns lookups for ftp, nfs, telnet, ssh, ...