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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!pacbell.com!amdahl.com!netcomsv!uu4news.netcom.com!davsys.com!news.irbs.com!not-for-mail From: jc@irbs.com (John Capo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: portmapper forking indefinitely Date: 22 May 1996 22:48:34 -0400 Organization: IRBS Engineering Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4o0jm2$1f1@goombay.irbs.com> References: <4nst5i$98j@europa.frii.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: goombay.irbs.com Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com> wrote: >We just had a very weird problem, which took out our servers for too >long. The RPC portmapper would not start up correctly on our NIS >master, giving messages like: > >May 21 10:09:58 host portmap[83]: CALLIT (prog 100004): fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > A broadcast storm will cause this behaviour. Are you running NIS clients on machines with aliased addresses by chance? John Capo jc@irbs.com IRBS Engineering FreeBSD Servers and Workstations (954) 792-9551 Internet Consulting - ISP Solutions