Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:13:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Gregory D. Moncreaff" <moncrg@ma.ultranet.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NIS across subnets, is it possible??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809132212250.1111-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35F9C9BD.C835A764@ma.ultranet.com>
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On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Gregory D. Moncreaff wrote: > my network was just partioned in a > move. > > before all my machines were on one > subnet and yp/nis worked great. > > now there are split between 3 subnets on two physical cables > and two DNS subdomains. > > I tried -ypsetme but no go... > > any advice? NIS is a broadcasting service. To gateway it across subnets you should either set up slave servers on each subnet or use 'ypset nisserver.domain.com' where you replace nisserver with the appropriate name. This is pretty well explained on the yp man page. 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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