From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 17 11:42:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B46FC37B65D for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:42:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 14UDEX-0004pB-00; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:41:29 -0800 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:41:26 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: "O. Hartmann" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is NIS/YP buggy or broken? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, O. Hartmann wrote: > Dear Sirs. > I have problems with an installation of NIS/YP and it seems to be > some kind of nasty to me. > My boxes are running all FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE and at this moment I > switched off all IP filters, snort or inetd's option "-wW" to avoid > blocking some services. > > I installed one machine as a master server and this worked fine. > This machine runs "ypserv", "ypbind -s -S XXXXXX,localhost (or name of host)", > "rpc.ypxfrd" and "rpc.yppasswdd". At first I tried also to run "keyserv" > and "rpc.ypupdatedd" due to needs of secure RPC. > > Main problem is, that ypbind is not able to connect to the local server > "ypserv" or when creating/changing new maps, the master server can not > contact its slave servers, no matter why. The error is always that it > could not create an UDP handle or "no such host or address" or similar. > What's wrong? When running inetd -lwW I assured in /etc/hosts.allow all > services like ypserv, rpc.XXX, keyserv and yppush,ypxfr to be accessd > from the local net, also the IP filter is transparent for all packets > on the lokal net. But it is always the same, no contact to the master > or slave servers. > > On hosts which act as clients could never be initiated a service connection to > master or slave server (all machines are on the same network). > > I tried the simplest installation described in the handbook - without success, > the same behaviour (also on new machines without any specialized security installaions). > I regret that SecureRPC is not mentioned further in the handbook (about how to use > keys etc, maybe this is focus for the malfunction anywy). > > So, at last I would like to as whether the NIS/YP implementation on FreeBSD is > broken or not? It works fine. I've have a 4.2-STABLE system running in hybrid mode (both a server and client), pluse a 3.4-STABLE slave server. No NIS services use inetd so it pointless to pursue that. Do you have /var/yp/securenets set up? It sounds like it is not. > Thanks, > Oliver > > -- > MfG > O. Hartmann > > ohartman@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz > Becherweg 21 > 55099 Mainz > > Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) > Tel: +496131/3924144 > FAX: +496131/3923532 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message