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From: Bryan Whitehead <driver@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ybind problems - doesn't like YP server
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:37:40
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.63.0507201428490.20215@beavis.megahappy.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Ybind problems - doesn't like YP server by Jim Hatfield
1 FWIW I've never had broadcast NIS work all that well in linux. Instead, I
2 just list all my NIS server master/slaves.
3
4 On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Jim Hatfield wrote:
5
6 > We have a Solaris based YP server.
7 >
8 > On a fresh install I set /etc/yp.conf to:
9 > domain insignia broadcast
10 >
11 > and set NISDOMAIN to "insignia" in /etc/conf.d/domainname.
12 >
13 > If I run "ypbind -debug" I get:
14 >
15 >> speyburn ~ # ypbind -debug
16 >> parsing config file
17 >> Trying entry: domain insignia broadcast
18 >> parsed domain 'insignia' broadcast
19 >> add_server() domain: insignia, broadcast
20 >> [Welcome to ypbind-mt, version 1.17.2]
21 >>
22 >> do_broadcast() for domain 'insignia' is called
23 >> Answer for domain 'insignia' from server 'panther.internal.local'
24 >> leave do_broadcast() for domain 'insignia'
25 >> Pinging all active server.
26 >> Pinging all active server.
27 >
28 > The YP server is correctly identified. I can ping it OK
29 > in another window. However if I do a ypwhich in another
30 > window I get:
31 >
32 >> speyburn ~ # ypwhich
33 >> can't yp_bind: Reason: Domain not bound
34 >
35 > It doesn't make any difference if I use the "-broken-server"
36 > flag.
37 >
38 > This was working fine on the machine which failed and I'm
39 > in the process of replacing, and I'm pretty sure I didn't
40 > do any more than the above.
41 >
42 >
43 >
44 >
45
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