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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 1999 00:19:56 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Chris Conrad <chconrad@syr.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, des@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with NIS
Message-ID:  <19991004001956.J35757@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <19991002234621.A5817@syru205-140.syr.edu>
References:  <19991002234621.A5817@syru205-140.syr.edu>

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On [19991003 08:18], Chris Conrad (chconrad@syr.edu) wrote:
>Here's the situation.  I've got 2 machines on a network.  The gateway
>machine (myrdraal) has 2 NIC's, one connected to the outside world,
>and the other to my LAN.  This machine is running VA Linux System's
>distribution of linux (kernel version 2.2.7 with patches for the DoS
>attack).  ypserv (version 1.3.6.91 according to rpm -q) is running on
>this machine.  It is also running ypbind and it successfully binds to
>itself.  The second machine (caemlyn) is running FreeBSD-STABLE (I cvsup'd
>everything and did a make world yesterday).  Both of the names I gave
>are thier names on the LAN.
>
>The problem is, the FreeBSD machine will not bind to the ypserv
>running on myrdraal.  The nisdomainname is identical on both machines.
>After running ypbind on caemlyn, it returns immediately without error. ypwhich
>however, gives an error saying that ypbind could not bind to the
>domain.  I tried running ypserv on the FreeBSD machine and having it
>bind to itself and that worked.  Also, the linux machine had no
>problems binding to the FreeBSD ypserv.

Hmm, Robert Jordan fan, cool ;)

Anyways, what people unfortunately forget is that FreeBSD's NIS support
is actually a NIS+ implementation.

Do you have any /var/log/messages output you could paste to give a
better idea of the situation as well as any config files?

Also, I cc:-d Dag-Erling, since I believe he knows more about NIS in
depth than I do. If this isn't DES, please cc: the person who does know.

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
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