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Date:      Fri, 05 Mar 1999 14:07:01 -0600
From:      "Otto E. Solares" <solca@fisicc-ufm.edu>
To:        cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS & NIS Problems
Message-ID:  <36E03965.57323E3@fisicc-ufm.edu>
References:  <199903051944.OAA14210@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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"Crist J. Clark" wrote:

> Otto E. Solares wrote,
> > We have only a master server "zeus.adm.fisicc-ufm.edu",
> > no slaves, one NIS domain "olympia.fisicc" and all clients
>   ^^^^^^^^^
> > are in time synch with zeus.
> >
> > The clients used to be in the same network with the
> > server (192.168.1.0) but that was when we was setting up
> > the clients 1 by 1 so we have no chance to see if has the
> > same problems, now each lab contains like 40 clients, we have
> > 4 labs (lab1: 192.168.2.0 lab2: 192.168.3.0 lab3:192.168.4.0
> > and lab4: 192.168.5.0) The clients are almost 95% the day
> > in windows and a few days we have like 60 in FreeBSD
> > (student projects), very tipically it hangs in X with the user
> > logged in and display a message like RPC time out.
>
> I think this is your problem. NIS is intended to be run over a
> LAN (it uses broadcast UDP messages). Client-server communications
> start to get really funky on a WAN. The most straight forward way to
> fix this is to run a slave server on each LAN.
>
> Keeping up a client-server relationship over a WAN, in my personal
> experience, requires a bit of Deep NIS Magic. Of course, I was mixing
> OSs as well which compounded my problems.
>
> --
> Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com

I will try the NIS slave, but what happens if i run a NIS slave in each
client for speed, can be any trouble, suggestions???



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