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Date:      Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:24:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com>
Cc:        Robert Beer <r-beer@onu.edu>, stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to setup NIS slave server?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980309002324.3844o-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980307141404.16742B-100000@altrox.atipa.com>

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On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Atipa wrote:

> 
> Thanks to all who helped w/ my earlier quesiton. Got everything working
> fine.
> 
> NIS is doing everything I want it to, except maintain multiple servers. I
> can not find any documentation anywhere as to how one would designate
> master/slave servers. ypserv has no such option.

Although I don't claim to be a NIS expert, I'm under the impression that
`slave' servers are defined by the client using ypset -S.  Slaves can act
like DNS secondaries and ypbind to the master server to grab data, though. 

I'm hoping you found the yp and ypserv man pages by now.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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