Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:22:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS Question Thanks!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990626112150.333J-100000@heidi.plazza.it>
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Yes. NIS is braindead. The amount of traffic is not that large. The problem you will see is that it takes longer for a prompt to return due to NIS when the network is heavily loaded and latencies rise. When you log in to a Sun box (most often NIS-ified) for example, you will see that it takes ages. When you switch off NIS in /etc/nsswitch.conf you get quite a speedup on this for most cases. Apart from DNS. You will have to replace libresolv.* for getting that without NIS. :-( Solution: Very simple, make every machine a NIS slave server. Works here like a charm across 6 machines (tiny network, I know). Once in a while a machine pops to an external one, but that can be solved easily enough by killing ypbind and restarting it. I have not looked at either memory or disk usage. Hope this helps. Nick > 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! > > ================================================ > > Nick > nick@chromatix.com > Web Page: http://www.lopresti.dhs.org/users/nick > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > -- e-Mail: hibma@skylink.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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