First NFS entry in fstab not mounting at boot

BadMagic badmagic at foo-unix.org
Sun May 16 14:06:54 UTC 2010


On 05/16/2010 10:28 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 16 May 2010 22:05:09 +1000
> BadMagic wrote:
>
>    
>> Does anyone know what's going on?
>>      
> I don't know what is going on, but I had a problem where
> the first DNS lookup I'd ever do would almost always fail
> (I'm running named as a local DNS server). I made a silly
> little "system service" script to start immediately after
> named and had it background several nslookup calls of names
> I need early in the boot, and the mysterious failures
> disappeared (or only happened to the nslookup calls where
> I wouldn't notice).
>    
Thanks for the reply.

Both machines (fs1 & fs2) are DNS servers but
my problem is not DNS related.

It happens even if I use IP addresses instead of
hostnames in fstab.






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