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Date:      Wed, 08 Mar 2000 16:23:46 -0500
From:      Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
To:        "Christopher T. Griffiths" <cgriffiths@quansoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NIS and DES password setup 
Message-ID:  <200003082123.QAA80492@benge.graphics.cornell.edu>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Christopher T. Griffiths" <cgriffiths@quansoo.com>  of "Wed, 08 Mar 2000 16:20:13 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003081619170.1804-100000@defiant.quansoo.com> 

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>Already tried that.  That is why I tried to use the -S to force the bind.
>
>No luck there.
>
>Any other suggestions?

Yes, IP netmasks and broadcast addresses.  If they don't agree then
NIS (and lots of other things) won't work.

-Mitch


>Chris
>
>On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
>
>> 
>> >The problem is when I ypbind -S domain-name,master and I try to do a ypcat
>> >of the passwd file it just sits there and finally throws an error stating
>> >it cannnot find or bind to the specified server.
>> 
>> For purposes of debugging I would suggest first running ypbind without
>> the -S flag.  If that works then it's pretty likely your problem has to
>> do with name resolution.
>> 
>> -Mitch
>> 
>
>



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