Aaron Turner <agt3@york.ac.uk> wrote:

> Under Fedora Core 1 exportfs -a for half a dozen file systems
> seems to take about 6 minutes. When the clients try to mount
> the file systems (even if booted individually) they time out.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this or have an inkling of what
> might be going on?

Check that the clients can do the following in a timely manner.

rpcinfo -p <server_ip>
rpcinfo -p <server_hostname>
showmount -e <server_ip>
showmount -e <server_hostname>
host <server_hostname>
host <client_ip>

If any of the delays are about 6 seconds, that's often indicative of a
DNS PTR record that is missing.

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