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From: pflores@alpha1.phoenix.net (Paul Flores)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Bind YP server on other subnet???
Date: 1 Nov 1996 14:31:48 GMT
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Chung-Kie Tung (tung@garfield.ee.ncku.edu.tw) wrote:

: One(A1) of these BSDs is on the same subnet as the yp server, the others 
: is not(B1, B2....). Now the problem is clients on different subnet could 
: not bind to the yp server

: I have enable -tpset option in ypbind, but it always return errors when
: running "ypset"...:(

: ----+---------+----[ROUTER]-----+-------+-------+--------
:     |         |                 |       |       |
:     YP        YP                YP      YP      YP
:   server    client            client  client  client
:     A0        A1                B1      B2      B3

:      B1, B2, B3 could not bind to yp server A0

ff hand, I would suggest you check your /etc/hosts file to make sure that the
name you are trying to bind to is in there with the correct IP.

Also might want to check and make sure no one is filtering SunRPC on the 
router. :>

Paul Flores

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