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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!noc.near.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!haven.umd.edu!hecate.umd.edu!rac5.wam.umd.edu!garyj From: Gary Jackson <garyj@wam.umd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Networking on campus... Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 16:10:28 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 34 Message-ID: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950907160947.510B-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu> References: <199509071408.KAA01107@gradient.cis.upenn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rac5.wam.umd.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <199509071408.KAA01107@gradient.cis.upenn.edu> On Thu, 7 Sep 1995, Darrel Herbst wrote: > In article <Pine.ULT.3.91.950906172313.24849A-100000@rac6.wam.umd.edu> you wrote: > : I'm having some trouble setting up my machine with the UMCP campus dorm > : network. > > : On bootup, the machine stops right after the FS checks. > > : # Set to the NIS domainname of your host, or NO if none > : defaultdomainname=dorm.umd.edu > > > -- They didn't give you an NIS server, you aren't reading what you are > trying to set correctly. You should put NO. > > NIS is the network Information Service, it used to be called yellow > pages, or 'yp'. Try man nis or man -k yp to get a handle on what it > is. I would say you are locking up because the machine is looking to > contact the NIS server, but there isn't one at dorm.umd.edu so it's > getting confused, twice so because dorm.umd.edu is just a network > portion of the address and not a host. I tried that, but it didn't seem to work... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Gary L. Jackson II | "Will you walk a little faster?" | | garyj@wam.umd.edu | said a whiting to a snail, | | gjackson@capaccess.org | "There's a porpoise close behind us | | (301) 590-9686 | and he's treading on my tail" | --------------------------------| -Lewis Carroll, Alice's | | FreeBSD Forever | Adventures in Wonderland | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------