From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 25 11:41:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.chromatix.com (unknown [207.97.115.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A7F15815 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:41:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@chromatix.com) Received: from dogwood (dogwood.chromatix.com [207.97.115.140]) by mail.chromatix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA24338 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:41:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from nick@chromatix.com) Message-ID: <004401bebf3a$49be01b0$8c7361cf@dogwood.chromatix.com> From: "Nick LoPresti" To: Subject: NIS Question Thanks!! Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:41:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0041_01BEBF18.C2A02CB0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0041_01BEBF18.C2A02CB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable First of all, I would like to thank everyone who helped me with my NIS problems(A few days back). It is up and running now. For anyone else attempting to set up NIS, what really helped me was this website: http://www.realtime.net/sculpture/nis-startup.html For all those questioning the security risks, I AM running my NIS domain behind a firewall, a good one too, FreeBSD firewall :) Now, I have another question about NIS... Does NIS support any kind of caching? Or does it go out to the NIS = server every time someone logs in? Is there a way to set something up? After = I start putting most of the systems on this, I imagine that network usage = is going to raise dramatically... Thanks for any info you can provide! =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Nick nick@chromatix.com Web Page: http://www.lopresti.dhs.org/users/nick ------=_NextPart_000_0041_01BEBF18.C2A02CB0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who helped me with my=20 NIS
problems(A few days back). It is up and running now. = For=20 anyone else
attempting to set up NIS, what really helped me was this=20 website:
http://www.re= altime.net/sculpture/nis-startup.html

For=20 all those questioning the security risks, I AM running my NIS = domain
behind a=20 firewall, a good one too, FreeBSD firewall :)

Now, I have another = question about NIS...

Does NIS support any kind of caching? = Or does=20 it go out to the NIS server
every time someone logs in? Is = there a way=20 to set something up? After I
start putting most of the systems = on this,=20 I imagine that network usage is
going to raise = dramatically...

Thanks=20 for any info you can=20 provide!

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D

Nick
nick@chromatix.com
Web Page: = http://www.lopresti.dhs.o= rg/users/nick

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