Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 08:00:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Quinot <quinot@inf.enst.fr> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/27230: Users after NIS lines in /etc/passwd Message-ID: <200105111500.f4BF02k01600@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/27230; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Thomas Quinot <quinot@inf.enst.fr>
To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc: Thomas Quinot <quinot@inf.enst.fr>,
"Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/27230: Users after NIS lines in /etc/passwd
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 16:50:51 +0200
Le 2001-05-11, Dima Dorfman écrivait :
> > As I understand it, your patch and/or changing the returned value would
> > resolve the faulty 'no such user' error, but not the 75-second hang
> > that is experienced when rpcbind is not running.
> I don't think that's a bug. It's the nature of NIS; it should wait in
> hopes of the server responding. Perhaps the bug is that it doesn't
> wait when rpcbind is running but ypbind isn't.
In that case perhaps we could change the code to use TCP when trying to
connect to the local portmapper, so we can get a 'connection refused'
immediately rather than timing out when there is no portmapper running.
If this is not possible, then the fact that all '+' lines in /etc/passwd
and /etc/groups should be at the end of the file should IMO be documented.
Thomas.
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