Why doesn't NFS resolve domain names when the mount times out?

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Issue

  • Why doesn't NFS resolve domain names when the mount times out?
  • I DNS failover in my environment to facilitate high avaliability between two NFS servers, why does the NFS share timeout and not resolve when the DNS fails over to the second NFS server?
  • Why does NFS continue to try to resolve the IP address instead of the domain name when a domain name is specified as the NFS server in the initial mount command?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • NFS

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