Unable to mount a NFS share of new installed NFS Server

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Issue

  • Installed a new RHEL6 system and configured NFS share but the NFS clients are unable to mount the share.

  • From the NFS client below output were showing:

 # rpcinfo -p <NFS-SERVER-IP>
 rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - No route to host
 # showmount -e <NFS-SERVER-IP>
 clnt_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - Unable to receive: errno 113 (No route to host)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as NFS Server
  • NFS

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