From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 19 18:17:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7290918425 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 18:17:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA22853; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:17:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199910200117.VAA22853@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: NIS server selection In-Reply-To: <380C80C0.1233ACC@freenet.uk.com> from Ian Diddams at "Oct 19, 1999 03:31:28 pm" To: didds@freenet.uk.com (Ian Diddams) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:17:51 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-questions@freebsd.org) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ian Diddams wrote, > We will shortkly have the scenario of one NIS master and two or three > NIS slaves. > > Due to various rasons we want to ensure the slaves are used by clients > in preference to the master server which we basically want to use to > merely update the slaves. > > Is there any way I can stipulate clients to use various slaves rather > than the master? The '-S' option of ypbind will do this. Also remember that the structure of the network is important, though. A client is always going to bind to a server on the LAN. If the master is not on the LAN, you don't have anything to worry about (unless there is no slave server either ;). > In Solaris ypinit has a -c option to create such an ordered list of NIS > servers to use , but FreeBSD does not support this feature. I'm not sure what this means. The clients don't run ypinit, so how could it effect what server they bind to? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message