From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 28 21:26:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0601E1508D for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:26:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA09807; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:27:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199906290427.AAA09807@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: NIS across a subnet in 3.2-R? In-Reply-To: from "Andrew N. Edmond" at "Jun 28, 99 09:07:04 pm" To: president@flyingcroc.com Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:27:32 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (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 Andrew N. Edmond wrote, > I pillaged the FreeBSD mailing list archives as usual, and though there is > a lot of talk about NIS on FreeBSD supposedly being able to work, not one > mention in the 500+ posts I read through about it *actually working* :) > > Though I tend to be someone that can setup NIS pretty quickly on a set of > machines that share broadcast traffic, in this instance, the machines that > will not communicate do not share broadcast traffic, and ypbind -S and > ypset simply do not contact the master server, by IP or net domain. > > So, is there ANYBODY out there that has FreeBSD running NIS across > subnets? At this point, I'd gladly give anybody that could prove it $50 > just for saying so :) I _had_ NIS running over subnets (on 2.2.8 a few months ago). I used slave servers on each subnet. The info on where to send the $50 (US I assume) will follow. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message