Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:00:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com>, "'Kris Kirby'" <kris@hiwaay.net>, "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: nis issues with FreeBSD Message-ID: <14570.18310.467304.995713@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004042054350.250-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> References: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2F7E@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004042054350.250-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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Doug Rabson writes: > On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Waite, Michael wrote: > > > Yep, > > "fatfinger" in the resolv.conf files. > > > > Curious though as you do not have to specify a yp server any where. > > It specifies the ypdomainname but never points directly at a specific > > server. > > Is this necessary. > > Would performance be better to point directly to the yp server? > > If so which file would you modify "/etc/rc.conf"? > > This isn't necessary - ypbind locates a suitable server using a broadcast > when it starts. It then uses unicast to work with the server. You can use > ypset to point it at a specific server I think. You can also lock ypbind to a set of servers via the -S flag and use the -m flag to 'many-cast' among the set of servers rather than sending a broadcast. I run with this in my /etc/rc.conf nis_client_flags="-m -s -S nisdomain,server1,server1,server3" Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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