[rhn-users] NIS Slave configuration

[Guillermo Barton = Shark]

Your setup should work, keep in mind that broadcast will work only
for that subnet where your NIS slave is.  If you are going accross subnets
you have to use :

domain mydomain server host1

-G



Charith Perera wrote:

>I have the following configuration for a four machine network
>
>host1 is the NIS server. host2, host3, host4 are all configured to be NIS 
>clients and everything works fine. I want to make host2 a slave server, so 
>I've made the following changes.
>
>On host1 (Master Server), I've added a new line in /var/yp/ypservers and 
>listed host2. Also I've set NOPUSH=false in the makefile, and then ran make 
>within /var/yp/
>
>On host2 (Slave Server) I ran /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -s host1. I received errors 
>saying that ypxfrd is not running, but I think that's fine because ypxfrd is 
>indeed not running on host1. The maps were successfully build
>
>On each client (including the Slave Server), in /etc/yp.conf I have it setup 
>as follows:
>domain mydomain server host1
>
>
>When I stopped ypbind on the server, the clients spewed out some errors, so I 
>had to manually replace host1 with host2 in yp.conf and restart ypbind. If I 
>want the clients to automatically find the slave server, do I have to change 
>yp.conf so that it broadcasts for a server? Is there any way to lists 
>multiple servers per domain?
>
>
>Thanks
>
>Charith Perera.
>
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