Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 00:50:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: BIND Problems Message-ID: <199812080550.AAA17563@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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I am using my PC at work as a testbed, or more of a practice client for using NIS more over our networks. Right now, I have four SGIs working smoothly with one NIS master and the other three as clients (the master is also a client to itself). I want to operate my FreeBSD on my PC off of this same IRIX box. I have set up my FreeBSD machine to be a NIS client. I added the apropriate '+' lines to aliases, passwd, and group. I run ypbind at startup (with '-S' since I think there are some troubles that might help that I mentione below). I made sure domainname is correct. However, it doesn't work. My suspicion is that it is not talking to the master. The SGI's are all on the same hub, so broadcasts always find their way betwee them. My PC has a gw PC in between (due to limitations in our buidling's thin net wiring) it and the NIS master. I'm not sure how to get them to find each other past it. I think the '-S' option on 'ypbind' should fix that from the client end, but it doesn't work. Now, there haven't been any FreeBSD specific questions yet (not that I wouldn't consider the above fair game for this maillist), but the way ypbind fails make me wonder if something else is not right. First, ypbind likes to spawn another ypbind process. When I try to log in or su, any time /etc/passwd is accessed, the command hangs for minutes, then it does come back and completes (with no errror messages I can find) successfully. Also, NFS connections act even more strange than usual. The NFS mount to the NIS master I'm having trouble with seems fine, but the NFS mount of another FreeBSD box hangs up for minutes. I can't tell id that's an independent problem or another symptom of the ypbind heartache. And all of these troubles seem to stop when I 'killall yp.' Anyone have suggestions or pointers? I've been over the various NIS manpages on FreeBSD and IRIX a few times, but they get to be circular to the beginner. I have a copy of what I believe is the bible on these systems, the O'Rielly NFS and NIS book. The parts I've tried to use as cookbook instructions are deceptively easy. Pointers to specific parts that may be of interest would be much appreciated too. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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