Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 18:28:23 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS/YP struggles Message-ID: <20010202182823.A91447@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102012010010.92987-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>; from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:20:27PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102012010010.92987-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:20:27PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > I got some problems installing and using NIS/YP. > > I set up a YP/NIS server and a slave server to serve a small > domain. But something seems to be wrong. > > master server and slave server are set up as described in the handbook. Server > daemon is present, both machines should be YP clients to theirselfs, so > I set up them to be clients with ypbind -s -ypsetme etc. > I set up rpc.ypxfrd on both servers and creating the slave entries seems > to be very easy and works. Both machines and the clients are on the same > local network. Both machines use IPFW as filter and both are fully transparent > on the local network for all packets and protocols. Both machines use tcpwrapper > and all services for NFS, RPC (portmapper), NIS/YP are allowed to connect. > But nothing happens! > When the master server generates its new maps every hour it returns a failure that > it could not create an UDp handle to the named slave server. When doing a ypcat > passwd or similar command on the YP/NIS master server I get a failure like > ypcat: no such map group.byname. reason: Can't bind to server which serves this domain > ypbind is up, ypserv is up, all other servers are up ... what's wrong? What does, $ domainname $ ypwhich $ rpcinfo -p Tell you? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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