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Dear colleagues,

 We have a network of SUN workstations running Solaris 7.

 We have a recurrent problem, and I was wondering if anyone had
suggestions on how to fix it.

 Problem description: NFS exhibits sporadic black-outs that last several
minutes and typically occur several times a day. These black-outs are
always preceded by a message "AUTHDES_VALIDATE: VERIFIER MISMATCH".

Apr  3 14:48:27 chateauneuf unix: NOTICE: authdes_validate: verifier
mismatch
Apr  3 14:51:27 chateauneuf unix: NFS server rhone not responding still
trying
Apr  3 14:51:27 chateauneuf unix: NOTICE: authdes_validate: verifier
mismatch
Apr  3 14:54:27 chateauneuf last message repeated 1 time
Apr  3 14:57:27 chateauneuf unix: NFS server rhone ok

We have discarded plausible hypotheses such as:

a) server overload
b) network congestion.

 Any hint or help would be immensely appreciated !

        Alain.

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Hi !

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Sorry, no hints, but I have the same problem (the messages are:
authconf: mountd not responding); additionally, sometimes
the automoounter (autofs) hangs, too.

Maybe a NIS(+)-related problem.

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Bye,
Roland

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: Apr  3 14:51:27 chateauneuf unix: NFS server rhone not responding still
: trying
: Apr  3 14:51:27 chateauneuf unix: NOTICE: authdes_validate: verifier
: mismatch
: Apr  3 14:54:27 chateauneuf last message repeated 1 time
: Apr  3 14:57:27 chateauneuf unix: NFS server rhone ok

You are useing secure-nfs? maybe there is too big time differences between
client and server?

toomas soome
Tartu University, Estonia
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