Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 15:49:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org, wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu Subject: ypbind and "-S" param Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970504154016.18389A-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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I don't like how the "-S" param to ypbind works. "-S", as described in the manpage can be used instead of ypset in order to specify a limited set of NIS servers. However, you can not specify non-local NIS servers with "-S". You must use ypset to force ypbind to go to a non-local server, however, this means you can only set only NIS server, and since ypbind only uses ypset as a "hint", if it loses binding, it just starts polling the ethernet for a local server. So, why won't "-S" take non-local servers? Currently, ypbind is basically useless without a local NIS server. However, I can't make this system a NIS server too because it only a T1 away from the master, and map pushing is already too slow. So NIS client-only setup seems to be the way to go. Tom
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