about dns

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 18:56 -0800, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Roldán [mailto:roldan at digi.cupet.cu] 
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:19 PM
> To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
> Subject: about dns
> 
> ok i chek the domainname on the master and that ypserv was runnig, and i
> chek in the client the yp.conf file says: ypserver redes.digi.cupet.cu 
> then in the nsswitch file i add the entry 'nisplus' to passwd, shadow and
> group lines and then when i restart the ypbind and do ypwhich -m it says: 
> can't get map list for domain nisnet. reason: internal nis error
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> Look in your /etc/sysconfig/network
> 
> NISDOMAIN=<verify it's the properdomain name>

You have to have the SAME NIS domain on the client machine.  Run
"domainname" and verify it's set to the same as the master.

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