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From: martti.kuparinen@era-t.ericsson.se (Martti Kuparinen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ypbind hangs Date: 3 Apr 1997 07:31:59 GMT Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5hvmdf$gqd@newstoo.ericsson.se> References: <5hulce$koi@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: kk130.ericsson.se Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news.flex.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.asu.edu!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!cyclic.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!gsl-stkh-ns.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!eru.mt.luth.se!newsfeed2.luth.se!news.luth.se!erix.ericsson.se!erinews.ericsson.se!news Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38424 Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> wrote: > The problem is that your router is not forwarding the broadcasts from > ypbind to the NIS+ server. Ok, maybe I was not clear enough in my previous article. Everything is working perfectly _until_ the router is rebooted. So obviously the router is configured correctly to forward the broadcasts... But the question remains: why the client's ypbind hangs after _temporarily_ losing connection to the NIS server? > setting the 'ypsetflags' knob so that it forces a ypset to the server > after ypbind has been launched (and add -ypsetme to the ypbind flags). Yes, we are already using these. /Martti