From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 13 16:49:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2216637B7B7 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:49:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 13O7Vc-000Flr-00; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:49:40 -0700 Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:49:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Howard Leadmon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS resolution failures wtih NIS?? Help... In-Reply-To: <200008131901.PAA71621@account.abs.net> 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 Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Howard Leadmon wrote: > I decided to start using NIS between a couple FBSD boxes, and overall things > are going well with one big exception. Seems if an IP address connects to > my server that won't resolve, then NIS hangs the session and I end up with > stacks of sendmail and ftpd's that just pile up till the box gets overloaded > with processes.. :( Fist of all, don't CC two lists... Second, make sure you are not using NIS for host resolution, then NIS will not even be queried. It is bad idea unless you distribute /etc/hosts via NIS, which is not a such good idea in the era of DNS anyhow. Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message