From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 4 13: 1:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0299D37B82D for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:01:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09937; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:01:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA27314; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:00:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:00:38 -0400 (EDT) To: Doug Rabson Cc: "Waite, Michael" , "'Kris Kirby'" , "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: nis issues with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: References: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2F7E@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14570.18310.467304.995713@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Rabson writes: > On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Waite, Michael wrote: > > > Yep, > > "fatfinger" in the resolv.conf files. > > > > Curious though as you do not have to specify a yp server any where. > > It specifies the ypdomainname but never points directly at a specific > > server. > > Is this necessary. > > Would performance be better to point directly to the yp server? > > If so which file would you modify "/etc/rc.conf"? > > This isn't necessary - ypbind locates a suitable server using a broadcast > when it starts. It then uses unicast to work with the server. You can use > ypset to point it at a specific server I think. You can also lock ypbind to a set of servers via the -S flag and use the -m flag to 'many-cast' among the set of servers rather than sending a broadcast. I run with this in my /etc/rc.conf nis_client_flags="-m -s -S nisdomain,server1,server1,server3" Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message