From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 18 9:22: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (ip-46-094.guate.net [200.12.46.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DC71159A1 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:21:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obonilla@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: (from obonilla@localhost) by voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA01490; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:21:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:21:24 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla To: Marc Tardif Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS problems Message-ID: <19990818102124.B1098@fisicc-ufm.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Marc Tardif on Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 02:29:01AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 02:29:01AM -0400, Marc Tardif wrote: > I'm trying to configure FreeBSD 2.2.8 to act as a NIS server for a Sun 4.1 > box. Here's what I have on the FreeBSD side: > > /etc/host.conf contains: > nis > > /etc/rc.conf contains: > hostmaine="freebsd.boxen.com" > nisdomainname="nis.domain" > nis_server_enable="YES" > nis_yppasswdd_enable="YES" > > rpcinfo -u localhost ypserv returns: > program 100004 version 1 ready and waiting > program 100004 version 2 ready and waiting > > tcpdump -i ethernet_interface returns: > 01:36:33.445599 solaris.boxen.com.1063 > 192.168.0.0.sunrpc: udp 104 > > Whereas, on the sun4.1 box which is trying desperately to initialise NIS > during boot-time is continuously returning: > NIS: server not responding for domain "nis.domain"; still trying. > > Any suggestions should be greatly appreciated, take a look at http://www.realtime.net/sculpture/nis-startup.html regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message