14:02:10 <blepe> I'm trying to work out why one of my machines can't run NFS in a lipkg zone. The nfs/server svc fails because it can't run mountd, and if I run that manually, it exits 1. Comparing a mountd truss from a working machine, everything looks the same up until a name_service_door call, after which the working one looks at nss.conf, and the broken one doesn't. (As shown in the gist at https://gist.github.com/snltd/28639add2108d0a21b4646e7a538f089) I 
14:02:10 <blepe> can't find anything different in the config of the working and non-working hosts, in either the global or local zones. Does anyone have any suggestions? They're both on the same revision of omnios-r151044.
15:13:12 <toasterson> is nss setup to use DNS? default from illumos is files only if omnios hasn't changed that.
17:50:29 <blepe> Yes. Everything else works as expected in every other zone on the box, but no zone can start mountd.
17:57:40 <tomww> blepe: I would make sure, that the own local name and IP are correctly resolved back and forward, check with the tool "getent"
17:57:51 <tomww> getent hosts thezonemachinename
17:58:00 <tomww> and getent hosts ip_of_zonemachinename
19:48:37 <blepe> That was it! The DNS for the new box hadn't propagated. I didn't realise NFS and DNS were quite so tightly tangled. Thank you.
19:51:56 <toasterson> NFS and DNS are tangled if you use DNS :) Alternatives are /etc/hosts or other nss providers that are configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf
20:07:14 <blepe> I'm getting NIS+ flashbacks!
20:08:32 <toasterson> no LDAP flashbacks?
20:15:05 <blepe> No, that's always been someone else's problem :)
20:15:37 <toasterson> XD
20:25:05 <tomww> blepe: glad to have helped. stumbled more then once into this little oddity with SunOS/Illumos based NFS serving
20:57:29 <sjorge> thanks for givinge
20:57:47 <sjorge> me ldapclient and dns flashbacks