Why does nfs server behind the firewall fails with error "RPC: Port mapper failure - Unable to receive: errno 113 (No route to host)"?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • nfs server behind firewall fails with error RPC: Port mapper failure - Unable to receive: errno 113 (No route to host).
#showmount -e <ip_address_of_the_nfs_server>
RPC: Port mapper failure - Unable to receive: errno 113 (No route to host)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and newer

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