On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:42:57PM +0300, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> My NFS is running NetBSD/i386 3.0_BETA and these kind of entries appear 
> in the logs:
> 
> 
> May 23 00:00:08 n70 rpc.statd: Failed to contact host ^E^F^G: RPC: 
> Unknown host
> May 23 00:05:04 n70 rpc.statd: Failed to contact host ^E^F^G: RPC: 
> Unknown host
> 
> 
> n70:~> rpcinfo -p localhost
> ...
>     100024    1   udp   1017  status
>     100024    1   tcp   1019  status
> ...
> 
> 
> Connections to these ports are only allowed from my desktop PC and it's
> currently powered off.

What OS do you have on your desktop ?

> The only other host allowed to access these ports
> is localhost, i.e. the NFS server itself.
> 
> Any ideas what might be causing this?

I see this on the servers at work too, with linux NFS clients. For some reason
the /var/db/statd.status file gets corrupted, with entries containing garbage.
I've spend some time on this, without success. I don't know if it's a
problem in rpc.statd itself, or in db(3).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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