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Date:      Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:01:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Howard Leadmon <howardl@account.abs.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   DNS resolution failures wtih NIS??  Help...
Message-ID:  <200008131901.PAA71621@account.abs.net>

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  I decided to start using NIS between a couple FBSD boxes, and overall things
are going well with one big exception.  Seems if an IP address connects to 
my server that won't resolve, then NIS hangs the session and I end up with
stacks of sendmail and ftpd's that just pile up till the box gets overloaded
with processes.. :(

 As an example, here is a netstat from one of the machines:

tcp4       0      0  mail1.ftp              nts2.1634              TIME_WAIT
tcp4       0      0  mail1.smtp             fj.egroups.com.19006   TIME_WAIT
yp_match: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
yp_match: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
yp_match: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
yp_match: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
yp_match: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out


Note the Timed out messages will just keep on scrolling, and the netstat will
never return to the shell prompt unless I break out of the process.  So really
any program that needs DNS resolution this could happen to.  I have several
machines in the NIS group, all are FBSD 4.0 or 4.1, some are Intel, and some
are DEC Alpha, and they all do the exact same thing.

Any ideas, as I have to keep rebooting every couple days to clear the
thousands of processes that just stack up over time.. :(


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