From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 13 17:22: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from account.abs.net (account.abs.net [207.114.5.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A379F37B82E for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:22:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardl@account.abs.net) Received: (from howardl@localhost) by account.abs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3+RBL+DUL+RSS) id UAA93846; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:21:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from howardl) From: Howard Leadmon Message-Id: <200008140021.UAA93846@account.abs.net> Subject: Re: DNS resolution failures wtih NIS?? Help... In-Reply-To: from Tom at "Aug 13, 2000 04:49:35 pm" To: Tom Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:21:58 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL72 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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.. :( > > 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 Is there some special trick to making it not do host resolution, as I have no need to do this. In /var/yp/Makefile, I commented out the one entry that I thought may have controlled that, if there is something elese I need to do could you point me in the right direction. Here is the line I was talking about: # The following line encodes the YP_INTERDOMAIN key into the hosts.byname # and hosts.byaddr maps so that ypserv(8) will do DNS lookups to resolve # hosts not in the current domain. Commenting this line out will disable # the DNS lookups. #B=-b --- Howard Leadmon - howardl@abs.net - http://www.abs.net ABSnet Internet Services - Phone: 410-361-8160 - FAX: 410-361-8162 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message