Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:35:14 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS server over IPv6 Message-ID: <200708311535.15153.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <dfdae4690708310623n4946a3b9v15e39f85463c94b3@mail.gmail.com> References: <dfdae4690708310215t2f7cf1d6pb0a9e2689f2239df@mail.gmail.com> <200708311410.55068.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <dfdae4690708310623n4946a3b9v15e39f85463c94b3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 31 August 2007 15:23:23 Prabhu Harihar wrote: <reformatted for clarity(tm)> > On 8/31/07, Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote: > > On Friday 31 August 2007 11:15:51 Prabhu Harihar wrote: > > > I wish to know whether FreeBSD supports NIS server running over IPv6 > > > protocol? > > > > > > I'm clueless in getting information about NIS server over IPv6 > > > configuration and availability in any Unix flavors including *BSDs, > > > > Solaris > > > > > or Linux distros. > > > > Except from configuring IPv6 and host resolving correctly, I don't think > > there's anything different with respect to NIS. It's all based on host > > and domainnames, so if a domain has one or more hosts with only IPv6 > > address, then it'll use IPv6. > > > I think, the underlying RPC portmapper needs to be "ipv6-aware". Whether > this is supported in FreeBSD? Do you think no other configuration changes > needed for NIS server / client running natively over IPv6 network? man rpcbind shows a -6 option, giving it the ability to only bind to IPv6 addresses, so I assume it's IPv6 ready. I can't think of a network utility/daemon in stock FreeBSD that isn't actually. -- Mel
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