NFS stops responding

[Michael ODonnell]

Oops.  I wrote:
>So, if I'm reading these tea leaves properly it's as
>if that lost the ability to recognize the reply to that request.  [?!]

...but meant to say, "[...]it's as if that client lost the ability[...]"

>But, then, how could it be that all 3 machines seem to get into this
>state at more or less the same time?  and why would unmounting and
>remounting all NFS filesystems then "fix" it?   Aaaiiieeee!!!