Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:57:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Sean Shilton <sshilton@ascend.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ypbind w subnets Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980422165602.8428P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980421173514.23537A-100000@basset.eng.ascend.com>
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On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Sean Shilton wrote: > I am running a solaris/sparc 2.5.1 ypserver on one subnet, i have three > freebsd 2.2.6 NIS clients on the same subnet, and i have no problem with > thoose machines. I have on another subnet (100bt routed) three more > freebsd NIS clients. When they were running 2.2.5-Release, i had the nis > set up as: > ypbind -ypset > ypset master.nis.server > This ran without a problem, except that when the master.nis.server was > rebooted, the freebsd clients on the other subnet (not the subnet of > master.nis.server) would hang and login prompt (either on console, or > telnet) would hang after asking for the user name. I upgraded thoose > boxes to 2.2.6-Release and now when it boots with the > ypbind -ypset > ypset master.nis.server > it returns the error of cannset set for domain nis.server on > master.nis.server, the nis clients do work after that error message > however. And when the master.nis.server is reboot the 2.2.6 clients still > hang. Try running ypbind -S yourdomainname,master.nis.server I can understand if the FreeBSD boxes hang while the NIS server is rebooting -- it has to wait for it to come back up. If you want a few minutes the FreeBSD box should either start complaining about how the NIS server went SOL or start working again. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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