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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:46:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is NIS/YP buggy or broken?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10102171145550.17868-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0102172044270.744-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>

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On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, O. Hartmann wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Tom wrote:
> 
> :>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.
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Yes /var/yp/securenets is set up. I try now to set up it in a special way
> to point to no securities to see whether this is the failure-impact or not.

  Do you have black lines in your securenets file?

> :>
> :>> Thanks,
> :>> Oliver
> :>>
> :>> --
> :>> MfG
> :>> O. Hartmann
> :>>
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> :>
> :>Tom
> :>Uniserve
> :>
> :>
> 
> --
> MfG
> O. Hartmann
> 
> ohartman@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de
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Tom
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