Description of problem: Sometimes during boot nfsd fails to do DNS lookups of hosts specified in /etc/exports/. This results in failing client connections. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nfs-utils-1.2.5-5.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: 50%? Steps to Reproduce: 1. reboot your NFS/DNS server 2. Access NFS directories from one of your NFS clients 3. Notice access problems Actual results: STALE NFS handles, write access failure (depending on exports contents) Expected results: NFS access as before. Additional info: This will probably be solved in the 1.2.6 RPM: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/2011-October/666919.html But why wait?
That patch was backported.... After=network.target named.service rpcbind.service proc-fs-nfsd.mount var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount Try added the named.service to the Requires= line to see if that helps