NFS takes too long to start

Hi,
I use RedHat 9
I have a machine 'A' which exports nfs to machine 'B' only.
I have specified its ip in /etc/exports like this
/home 192.168.0.1(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
Also there is a machine 'C' which exports nfs to all the machines in the network.
But the problem with these machines A & B is that they take a very large time to start up. They wait at the "Starting NFS services" for a very long time. Rest of the services start up pretty quickly.
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One more thing to note is that:
When the machine B is up the NFS services on A and C doesnt take time to start! I am puzzled about this.
I need that B should start last (i.e. after A & C.)
Because B mounts A's export and C is my LDAP server :(
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Please help !

Regards,
Anand.

do you have this line in your /etc/hosts file:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
if not then put it in, try restarting nfs and see if the problem persists.

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do you have this line in your /etc/hosts file:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
if not then put it in, try restarting nfs and see if the problem persists.

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Yes i have it.
And i can't restart nfs(then) because the system is just booting up at that time.
It is fine when i restart nfs after booting up because 192.168.0.1 is alive then.

ok..heres wat i did...i placed the same entry as yours in my nfs server with and without the "sync" in it...i observed that when i booted it up without the "sync" directive in the exports file it came up quickly than with it.
hope this helps.

Thanks for the testing. :)
I will check this out.