From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 8 11:17:09 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA07963 for current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 11:17:09 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA07955 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 11:17:06 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA29955; Tue, 8 Aug 95 12:09:19 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9508081809.AA29955@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: workaround for talk's address problem To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 95 12:09:18 MDT Cc: gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de In-Reply-To: <199508081801.LAA04395@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Aug 8, 95 11:01:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > >>Yes, but leads to a simple fix, running a cacheing name server on all > > >>NFS servers, and point your clients to that name server. > > > > > >Can you run named on a multi-homed Novell server? :-) > > > > > >Gary > > > > Actually yes. I believe that novell's NFS gateway comes with named, and > > NIS. > > Unless they added this after netware 4.0 your wrong. Novell's NFS comes > with lpr/lpd gateway code, but uses static sys:\etc\hosts file for > name resolution. If it had DNS support I would have lost 5 system > sales last year :-). > > Or is ``NFS Gateway'' something added after NFS 1.2b as a new product? I don't know the product names. But there is as part of some NFS stuff the ability to have an NDS system act as an NIS master. I don't know about DNS; maybe that's a confusion of NDS? The reason for the NIS mastering is to support NDS based full network administration and to support user ID mapping on NFS systems mounted by (and from) the NetWare server. Mostly "by". I remember this well because we had to listen to the relatively bogus security design when we were talking about unifying NDS and UNIX logins in UnixWare 2.x so that there would be credentials instances for NDS to avoid the NetWare login requestor for NUC (NetWare UNIX Client) mounted Native NetWare volumes. Then I pointed out "system boot" and since they hadn't thought about how to get NDS credentials when NDS wasn't up and networking wasn't up, the meeting got tabled. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.