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To: Jens Gerlach Christensen <jechrist@dscc.dk>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD as NIS Client 
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Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 10:37:15 -0500
From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
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>I wrote 4 days ago to get some help on setting up my freebsd 3.3 as a
>NIS client.
>Thanks for the replys, but they didn't help.
>Anyway. I found the problem, or at least the answer:
>The loopback adapter lo0 wasn't configured as localhost.
>So I added ifconfig_lo0="127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0"
>and nis started working.
>
>I'd like to know the explanation to this, so if anyone can point me to
>some
>documentation, I'd be very glad.
>
>Howcome lo0 isn't setup during normal installation?

It's a 3.3R bug.  See http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.3R/errata.html

-Mitch


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