Flumoxed

[Robert Meyer]

Sounds to me like you don't have reverse DNS working correctly.  The fact that
it's giving you an P that it's trying to authenticate, rather than a name. 
Just 'cuz you put the number in teh exports file doesn't mean that it won't try
to do the reverse lookup when you try to mount directories.

for a test, you could try to put all of your machine IPs in /etc/hosts and make
sure that nsswitch.conf has 'files dns'


Cheers!

Bob
--- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I appear to be going in circles.  I am running NIS+NFS to authenticate and
> mount home drives from the server.  My server also runs ypbind so that I get
> the same login wherever I sit.
> 
> From my client machine I can get to NIS just fine (a ypcat passwd comes back
> instantly) however there are VERY LONG pauses when X starts up, when I select
> a
> user and when I type the password and try to login.  Once I'm at a desktop
> the
> OS runs fine.
> 
> I ran 'tail -f /var/log/messages' while going to telinit 5 from 3 and saw
> that
> the log showed "authenticating mount request from 192.169.10.100 for
> /export/home/jjneff  <-- Or something very much like this.  It repeated many
> times while X was STARTING (NOT from me trying to login!)
> 
> Then it would say the same thing for lgneff and kaya the only other 2 users
> in
> NIS.  This message repeats at least 7 times/per user even before I get to
> KDM. 
> Once I click a user - the log messages all repeat some more and once I try to
> login I get many more of them from the user I logged in as.
> 
> I am using Autofs to mount /export/home/& to /home/* but I do not understand
> why so many authentication requests are being generated.  It's the only thing
> I
> can think of that may be slowing me down....
> 
> I added "options eth0 full_duplex=1" into my modules.conf to try to get the
> NICs to not auto-negotiate (10/100 switch) and the 3c95x and epic100 do not
> appear to have a "speed=100"option...
> 
> I've tried auto.master and auto.home from both NIS and files and it appears
> to
> work the same either way.  Am I missing something obvious or is there
> anything
> else I can try.
> 
> Again it appears to be network related because If I logon from a console on
> the
> server as any of the above mentioned users I get no problems and snap right
> on.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> JJN
> 
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=====
Bob Meyer
Knightwing Communications, Inc.
36 Cayuga Blvd
Depew, NY 14043
Phone: 716-308-8931 or 716-681-0076
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