> The problem was that nfsd wasn't registered with rpcbind, and our
> mount_nfs insists that it be registered, even though it never
> connects to it.

Well, mount_nfs doesn't connect, but the kernel NFS client code does.
(Unless you specify NFSMNT_NOCONN, and even then, it has to know the
destination port number for the sendto()-equivalent.)

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