Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:00:04 -0800 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Blake Swensen <blake@pyramus.com> Cc: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: yp_match: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out Message-ID: <20010212210004.88C983E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Blake Swensen <blake@pyramus.com> of "Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:40:28 PST." <3A8811FC.57DECAE5@pyramus.com>
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> Everytime I perform netstat (or systat for that matter) I get some of > the report and then the message "yp_match: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out" > > Any ideas as to where I should start looking for this cause of this > error? It's trying to resolve something and can't do it. The NIS library likes to print those messages out when that happens. It makes sense that this is the case, because netstat (and systat -netstat) tries to resolve the hostname of all the active connections, but some may not have corresponding PTR (reverse DNS) records. Basically, you can treat it as an ugly "host not found" message (which netstat won't print because it may screw up its output). That said, the message above isn't actually DNS-specific; it could mean any NIS lookup timed out. Assuming that your NIS server is reachable, and you're running a program which does *lots* of reverse lookups, it makes sense that failed DNS lookups are the cause in this particular case. Hope this helps Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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