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From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain FAUCONNET)
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Subject: Re: yp_next clnt_call timed out
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 23:17:33 +0100 (GMT+0100)
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In-Reply-To: <199609301419.PAA04213@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Sep 30, 96 03:19:12 pm
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Christoph Kukulies wrote / a ecrit:
> 
> 
> I'm getting these messages sometimes from one NIS client
> here. Any ideas what might cause them?
> 
> 
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 16:45:22 GMT
> From: root@somehost.somedomain.de (Cron Daemon)
> To: root@somehost.somedomain.de
> Subject: Cron <root@somehost> /usr/libexec/atrun
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
> 
> yp_next: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
> 
> 

Would your FreeBSD  machine  be  NIS  bound  to  a  server  that  does
forwarding of name resolution requests to DNS like most Suns do ?

Would you use NIS before DNS in host name resolution ?

I get that message when my FreeBSD  box  either  tries  to  resolve  a
non-existing host hame (because, I guess, it goes up to the  DNS  root
servers and this takes too long) of when the DNS server on our LAN has
problems (down, can't talk to upper level server(s) etc.)

_Alain_

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