From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 22:14:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27355 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:14:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27350 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:14:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01359; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:13:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:13:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Gregory D. Moncreaff" cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: NIS across subnets, is it possible??? In-Reply-To: <35F9C9BD.C835A764@ma.ultranet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Gregory D. Moncreaff wrote: > my network was just partioned in a > move. > > before all my machines were on one > subnet and yp/nis worked great. > > now there are split between 3 subnets on two physical cables > and two DNS subdomains. > > I tried -ypsetme but no go... > > any advice? NIS is a broadcasting service. To gateway it across subnets you should either set up slave servers on each subnet or use 'ypset nisserver.domain.com' where you replace nisserver with the appropriate name. This is pretty well explained on the yp man page. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message