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Date:      Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:49:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Howard Leadmon <howardl@account.abs.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DNS resolution failures wtih NIS??  Help...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10008131647350.23090-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200008131901.PAA71621@account.abs.net>

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On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Howard Leadmon wrote:

>   I decided to start using NIS between a couple FBSD boxes, and overall things
> are going well with one big exception.  Seems if an IP address connects to 
> my server that won't resolve, then NIS hangs the session and I end up with
> stacks of sendmail and ftpd's that just pile up till the box gets overloaded
> with processes.. :(

  Fist of all, don't CC two lists...

  Second, make sure you are not using NIS for host resolution, then NIS
will not even be queried.  It is bad idea unless you distribute /etc/hosts
via NIS, which is not a such good idea in the era of DNS anyhow.

Tom
Uniserve



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