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From: angelini@irisa.irisa.fr (Pierre Antoine Angelini)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC-NFS problems on 386
Summary: PCNSF Problems on i386
Message-ID: <1333@irisa.irisa.fr>
Date: 26 Jun 89 13:30:33 GMT
References: <8906121909.aa13452@ICS.UCI.EDU> <260@nlgvax.UUCP>
Organization: IRISA, Rennes (Fr)
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In article <260@nlgvax.UUCP>, geertj@nlgvax.UUCP (Geert Jan de Groot) writes:
> In article <8906121909.aa13452@ICS.UCI.EDU> milne@ICS.UCI.EDU (Alastair Milne) writes:
> >    On PC's with the i286 or i386, NET START RDR usually winds up reporting:
> >
> >	Cannot send broadcast packet: Unknown error
> >	NFS028W : Unable to find a YP server for domain uci-ics.
> >	net:  Unable to get hostname by ip addr (128.195.1.53)
> >
> >	(the ip addr reported is always correct for the host reporting it)
> >

We, at IRISA, had to face the same problem (on an XT) on our network.
For there is only two PC on that network (mainly composed of Sun stations),
I used a local /nfs/hosts file to solve the problem.
Anyway , I'am also waiting for the 3.1 release of PCNFS which is supposed to
fix that bug.

Concerning the release date, I heard from  a SUN representative in France that  they were late and expected to deliver it in France by late August, beginning of September . There has been the same problem between version 2.0 and 3.0.