Am 19.04.2012 19:30, schrieb Veli-Pekka Kestilä: > You could set in fstab ipaddress instead of the server name, so there is > no need for name lookup or you can put the ip and name in /etc/hosts Tried that now and it didn't help. When the backup server is down, the message is "no route to host" where it previously said "can't get address", but the startup sequence still proceeds without waiting for the NFS mount to appear. -- Tilman Schmidt Phoenix Software GmbH Bonn, Germany