From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 1:59:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E27FE37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:59:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fling.sanbi.ac.za (fling.sanbi.ac.za [196.38.142.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898EF43E75 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:59:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from irvine@sanbi.ac.za) Received: from gopak.sanbi.ac.za ([196.38.142.125] helo=sanbi.ac.za) by fling.sanbi.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1826Ur-000Gbg-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:59:14 +0200 Message-ID: <3DAE7BE0.4010201@sanbi.ac.za> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:59:12 +0200 From: Irvine Short Reply-To: irvine@sanbi.ac.za Organization: SANBI User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021001 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: NIS server oddities Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All Many folks use this? Our NIS master server was until a recent drive crash a 3.5 stable machine. NIS worked OK but for ypserv intermittently core dumping and being unable to push maps to slave servers. I got around this by making the slave servers pull their maps more often. The error when pushing maps to the slave servers is still there on 4.6 as is the intermittent core dumping of ypserv. Here's the error when pushing maps: ppush: xxxx.sanbi.ac.za xxxx.sanbi.ac.za xxxx.sanbi.ac.za: couldn't create udp handle to NIS server: RPC: Unknown host How best to troubleshoot this? I've tried putting the slave servers in /etc/hosts to no avail. The slave servers are both Irix, one 6.5.8m the other 6.5.17m Anyone else use the FreeBSD NIS server stuff? It seems to not have changed much in a long time... All help much appreciated! -- Irvine Short Sys Admin SANBI, University of the Western Cape, South Africa http://www.sanbi.ac.za tel: +27-21-959 3645 cel: +27-82-494 3828 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message