kdump fails to NFS target with permission denied error
Issue
- Customer is attempting to configure kdump over NFS (v3) but receiving a permission error when rebuilding the kdump initrd:
mount: <serveripaddr>:/dump failed, reason given by server: Permission denied
/etc/kdump.conf: Bad NFS mount <serverhostname>:/dump
- Getting illegal port messages like the following:
Nov 17 18:15:30 hostname mountd[pid#]: refused mount request from [ip/hostname.of.nfs.client] for /path/to/directory (/path/to/directory): illegal port ###
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
- kdump configured for NFS dump target
- NFSv3
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