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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.he.net!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!uninett.no!nordbo From: nordbo@bolinux2.hit.no (Bjorn Nordbo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems getting the NIS client to work properly Date: 12 Jul 1997 15:28:07 GMT Organization: UNINETT news service Lines: 31 Message-ID: <slrn5sf8ka.r74.nordbo@bolinux2.hit.no> Reply-To: nordbo@studbo.hit.no NNTP-Posting-Host: bolinux2.hit.no X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44315 I have tried to find any documentation that covers NIS setup, but without luck... If I just changes NO to YES for the "nis_client_enable" in /etc/rc.conf, it doesn't work at all. No response for ypcat, and ypwhich complains that the domain is not bound, which seems to make some sense. If I use this config: nis_client_enable="YES" nis_client_flags="-ypsetme" nis_ypset_enable="YES" nis_ypset_flags="ournisserver" both ypcat and ypwhich will work for some time (not logins however), but after 3-4 hours something fails and it starts writing this to the syslog about every minute: Jul 10 14:19:25 hostname ypbind[2358]: NIS server [123.456.789.10] for\ domain "tdh.no" not responding The NIS server is working fine, and the same problems also occours when I am using one of the slave servers. The NIS servers are SunOS boxes on different network segments, the FreeBSD box i version 2.2.2. All help are greatly appreciated! -- Bjorn Nordbo - nordbo@studbo.hit.no