Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 17:51:45 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is NIS/YP buggy or broken? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0102181747470.78664-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0102171922460.744-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, O. Hartmann wrote: > 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. oops - maybe you should try the real hostname (as found in you /etc/hosts file!) ypbind -s -S XXXXXX,<HOSTNAME> instead of localhost. What do your logs say? Consider activating all.log in /etc/syslog.conf: *.* /var/log/all.log > > 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 regards Jan > > -- > 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 > -- Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn Nussallee 12 D-53115 Bonn GERMANY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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