Uwe Richter <ur_at_minet.uni-jena.de> replied to me:
   have a look at /etc/sm.bak and delete the files belonging to
   machines that are not reachable any more and restart the NFS.
   We had some problems with this as the NFS server (inkl. the
   rpc.statd) tried to reestablish broken NFS connections but couln't succeed
   thus showing itself beeing busy. On the clients you may see the
   "NFS server not responding".
This indeed appears to have fixed the problem.  Thanks very much!
My original question was:
   I have an AS2100 running 4.0E.  We have recently found that statd is
   misbehaving.  The daemon is running but nothing can talk to it.  I've
   checked the hosts.deny file, but it's ok, and that wraps portmap
   anyway, not just statd, and everything else seems to respond just
   fine.
   
   I guess I'm not positive this was working ok before, but we started
   having NFS locking problems lately and I noticed this when I started
   poking around.  I didn't used to have problems so I sort of assume it
   worked ok before.
   
   Restarting statd and portmap didn't fix it, nor did a reboot.
   
   host1> rpcinfo -u host1 status
   rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
   program 100024 version 0 is not available
   
   host1> rpcinfo -t host1 status
   rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
   program 100024 version 0 is not available
   
   host1> rpcinfo -p
      program vers proto   port
       100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
       100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
       100024    1   udp   2330  status
       100024    1   tcp   1384  status
       100021    1   tcp   1385  nlockmgr
       100021    3   tcp   1385  nlockmgr
       100021    4   tcp   1385  nlockmgr
       100021    2   tcp   1385  nlockmgr
       100020    3   tcp   1385  llockmgr
       100021    1   udp   2332  nlockmgr
       100021    3   udp   2332  nlockmgr
       100021    4   udp   2332  nlockmgr
       100021    2   udp   2332  nlockmgr
       100020    3   udp   2332  llockmgr
       100004    2   udp    830  ypserv
       100004    2   tcp    831  ypserv
       100004    1   udp    830  ypserv
       100004    1   tcp    831  ypserv
       100007    2   tcp    836  ypbind
       100007    2   udp    838  ypbind
       100007    1   tcp    836  ypbind
       100007    1   udp    838  ypbind
       100009    1   udp   1023  yppasswdd
       100069    1   udp    851  ypxfrd
       100069    1   tcp    853  ypxfrd
       100005    1   udp   3522  mountd
       100005    3   udp   3522  mountd
       200023    1   udp   3522  exportmap
       100005    1   tcp    870  mountd
       100005    3   tcp    870  mountd
       100003    2   udp   2049  nfs
       100003    2   tcp   2049  nfs
       100003    3   udp   2049  nfs
       100003    3   tcp   2049  nfs
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