The machine OaklandWeather is set up to export some directories to the machine amito. But when OaklandWeather is restarted the export is lost. Running "# exportfs -a" restores the export and the desired files can be seen by amito. Some Details: root@OaklandWeather# cat /etc/exports # /etc/exportfs created by Jon : Fri 2021-11-05 02:33:51 PM PDT # edited by Jon : Tue Nov 16 10:30:08 AM PST 2021 # / amito(rw,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash) / amito(rw) /home amito(rw) The problem seems to happen because nfs is started before amito can be resolved: Nov 07 07:37:42 OaklandWeather.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting nfs- server.service - NFS server and services... Nov 07 07:37:42 OaklandWeather.localdomain exportfs[1074]: exportfs: Failed to resolve amito When OaklandWeather is running, amito can be resolved without difficulty: [jonrysh@oaklandweather ~]$ ping amito PING amito(fe80::eaa3:138b:df4f:7e60%enp4s0) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from fe80::eaa3:138b:df4f:7e60%enp4s0: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.739 ms System Info Operating System: Fedora Linux 36 KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.99.0 Qt Version: 5.15.6 Kernel Version: 6.0.5-200.fc36.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 2 × Intel® Pentium® CPU G2030 @ 3.00GHz Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 2500 Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: Inspiron 660s --  Sincerely Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh(a)pacbell.net&gt; The Website you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist.