Some (older) versions of amd or automount, and some versions of mount use unprivileged ports when checking for the availability of nfsd on the NFS server. [On the SunOS 5.4 client] staude# mount ikke:/export/akg2/store /mnt nfs mount: ikke: NFS service not responding nfs mount: retrying: /mnt [On the FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT NFS server] Apr 15 17:17:17 ikke /kernel: NFS request from unprivileged port (129.241.111.23 Fix: As a special case, allow the NFS NULL procedure even when the client port is not privileged.
State Changed From-To: open->closed Fixed in rev 1.22 of nfs_syscalls.c.