From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 15 04:40:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA29892 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 04:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA29867 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 04:40:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.8.7/RBI-Z13) with ESMTP id NAA07040; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 13:40:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id NAA11755; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 13:49:48 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <19971015134948.28014@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 13:49:48 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Branson.Matheson@FergInc.com Cc: Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: yp across a gateway? References: <199710150804.KAA10945@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <19971015071447.35432@toth.hq.ferg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <19971015071447.35432@toth.hq.ferg.com>; from Branson Matheson on Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 07:14:47AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 07:14:47AM -0400, Branson Matheson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 10:04:47AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > > I seem to a problem with yp/NIS clients that > > should reach a yp/NIS server across a gateway. > > I'm not sure if this ought to work or doesn't > > work out of principle in FreeBSD (2.2.2). > > Well... it can.. what you *Should* do is put a slave on the other > side of the gateway and ypset(8) it to the master. But you can also > ypset a client to the master on the other side of the gateway. The Hmm, I tried ypset and after a couple of seconds it came back: # domainname acd123 # ypset -d acd123 acserv Sorry, cannot ypset for domain acd123 on host. Does the server have to allow me to access it? > problem here is that if the master goes down, the slave will try to > rebind on it's subnet and will not be able to. I would suggest > running a slave on the other side. That way if the master does go > down.. the clients on that subnet will still be bound to the slave. > > -branson > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Branson Matheson " If you are falling off of a mountain, > Unix System Administrator You may as well try to fly." > Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. - Delenn, Mimbari Ambassador > ( $statements = ) !~ /Corporate Opinion/; -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de