From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 8 13:24: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from benge.graphics.cornell.edu (benge.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75ED437B647 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:23:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mkc@benge.graphics.cornell.edu) Received: from benge.graphics.cornell.edu (mkc@localhost) by benge.graphics.cornell.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA80492; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 16:23:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mkc@benge.graphics.cornell.edu) Message-Id: <200003082123.QAA80492@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> To: "Christopher T. Griffiths" Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: NIS and DES password setup In-Reply-To: Message from "Christopher T. Griffiths" of "Wed, 08 Mar 2000 16:20:13 EST." Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 16:23:46 -0500 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Already tried that. That is why I tried to use the -S to force the bind. > >No luck there. > >Any other suggestions? Yes, IP netmasks and broadcast addresses. If they don't agree then NIS (and lots of other things) won't work. -Mitch >Chris > >On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > >> >> >The problem is when I ypbind -S domain-name,master and I try to do a ypcat >> >of the passwd file it just sits there and finally throws an error stating >> >it cannnot find or bind to the specified server. >> >> For purposes of debugging I would suggest first running ypbind without >> the -S flag. If that works then it's pretty likely your problem has to >> do with name resolution. >> >> -Mitch >> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message