Can we replace the ping check with showmount or something in the nfs protocol?
ICMP isn't part of the nfs or rpc protocol, i use a nfs service and it doesn't offer ICMP replies obviously as it's not part of the rfc.
I guess if I was to try to scrape a PR together, it should also use smbclient to validate that's online too.
Actually I can just mount it manually after it fails. woohoo