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Date:      Wed, 4 Jun 1997 15:30:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: bin/3778: ypbind -S domainname,server1,... does not function
Message-ID:  <199706042230.PAA20110@hub.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/3778; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov>
To: jin@iss-p1.lbl.gov, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/3778: ypbind -S domainname,server1,... does not function
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 15:19:26 -0700

 > The only way to ypbind do what you want it to do is to download the
 > ypbind source code from FreeBSD-current and compile that on your 2.2
 > system. (It should compile without any problem.) Once you have that,
 > use the following:
 > 
 > # ypbind -m -S domain,server1,server2,server3,server4,...
 > 
 > The -m flag is new: it tells ypbind to use a 'many-cast' instead of
 > a broadcast. This will allow it to bind to any of the servers even
 > if they are on remote subnets.
 
 It works, but ypwhich kills it. That is, I cannot use ypwhich to fin out
 which ypserver is currently using.
 
 The ypbind is killed a couple of seconds after ypwhich command issued.
 
 Please let me know when this is fixed.
 
 Thanks again,
 
 -Jin
 



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