From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 1 08:07:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA09330 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 08:07:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA09306 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 08:07:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA26909 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 11:08:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa03488; 1 Apr 97 11:07 EST Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 11:07:53 -0500 (EST) From: Steve To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: pre 2.2 NIS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I note on my 2.1R and 2.1.5R boxes that if the primary NIS server is down, or failed to respond on a tranfers pull, the secondary servers end up with blank nis password databases. Does anyone know if this was addressed in 2.2 and above? or what i can do about it? It doesnt happen too often, but enough to require a fix.