[4631] in Athena Bugs
NFS timeouts don't include ARP resolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John F Carr)
Wed Mar 28 16:54:15 1990
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 16:54:01 -0500 (EST)
From: John F Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
If an address is not in the ARP cache and the machine owning the address
is not on the net, NFS requests to it will hang forever, or until some
other process attempts to send to the same address (this seems to,
sometimes, wake up the process doing the NFS so it detects a timeout).
Repeat-by:
mount some-machine:/ /mnt
arp -d some-machine
(shut down some-machine or unplug ethernet)
df
(wait forever)
