Hi Jeff- For the record, here are patches that add support to mount.nfs for negotiating the protocol family correctly with servers that have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. I've done some basic testing here against Solaris NFS servers, Linux with rpcbind (Fedora 12), and Linux with portmap (Ubuntu 9.10). --- Chuck Lever (4): text-based mount: Support protocol family negotiation text-based mount: Set addr= option in nfs_try_mount_foo() text-based mount: Replace nfs_lookup() with getaddrinfo(3) text-based mount: Retry when server can't be reached utils/mount/nfs.man | 6 ++ utils/mount/stropts.c | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) -- chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html