Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:35:21 +0100 (CET) From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Is NIS/YP buggy or broken? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0102171922460.744-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Dear Sirs. I have problems with an installation of NIS/YP and it seems to be some kind of nasty to me. My boxes are running all FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE and at this moment I switched off all IP filters, snort or inetd's option "-wW" to avoid blocking some services. I installed one machine as a master server and this worked fine. This machine runs "ypserv", "ypbind -s -S XXXXXX,localhost (or name of host)", "rpc.ypxfrd" and "rpc.yppasswdd". At first I tried also to run "keyserv" and "rpc.ypupdatedd" due to needs of secure RPC. Main problem is, that ypbind is not able to connect to the local server "ypserv" or when creating/changing new maps, the master server can not contact its slave servers, no matter why. The error is always that it could not create an UDP handle or "no such host or address" or similar. What's wrong? When running inetd -lwW I assured in /etc/hosts.allow all services like ypserv, rpc.XXX, keyserv and yppush,ypxfr to be accessd from the local net, also the IP filter is transparent for all packets on the lokal net. But it is always the same, no contact to the master or slave servers. On hosts which act as clients could never be initiated a service connection to master or slave server (all machines are on the same network). I tried the simplest installation described in the handbook - without success, the same behaviour (also on new machines without any specialized security installaions). I regret that SecureRPC is not mentioned further in the handbook (about how to use keys etc, maybe this is focus for the malfunction anywy). So, at last I would like to as whether the NIS/YP implementation on FreeBSD is broken or not? Thanks, Oliver -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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