NIS problems with FC2
Mike Cooper
Mike.Cooper at reshape.com
Thu May 20 21:54:28 UTC 2004
I'm having trouble with FC2 NIS clients (all are X86/IA32) not being
able to bind/find a NIS server if the FC2 client is set to "broadcast" via
domain reshape.com broadcast
in /etc/yp.conf
Apparantly ypbind never finds a server, even though there are 2 on the
same subnet. I ran ypbind -debug and it seems to get RPC timeouts when
it broadcasts for a server. A "ypwhich" command fails after about 90
seconds since ypbind eventually exists once it can't find a server.
My RHL 7.2 - 9 clients have no trouble with the same yp.conf config.
The NIS servers are both Solaris 8 with Sun's stock NIS ypserv.
If I change yp.conf to be
ypserver 10.X.X.X1
ypserver 10.X.X.X2
It does bind, but *very* slowly. NIS lookup is extremely slow. If not
for nscd, it would make the whole system unusably slow.
And yes, I know that "broadcast" isn't the safest thing in the world,
but it's right for this environment.
Anybody have any clues on this?
mike
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