From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 26 2: 5:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.skylink.it (ns.skylink.it [194.177.113.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AFD414F3F; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 02:05:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hibma@skylink.it) Received: from heidi.plazza.it (va-161.skylink.it [194.185.55.161]) by ns.skylink.it (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22571; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:05:10 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost.plazza.it [127.0.0.1]) by heidi.plazza.it (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA00387; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:57:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:57:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@heidi.plazza.it Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Nick LoPresti Cc: freebsd-question@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS Question Thanks!! In-Reply-To: <003501bebf39$22a396e0$8c7361cf@dogwood.chromatix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes. NIS is braindead. The amount of traffic is not that large. The problem you will see is that it takes longer for a prompt to return due to NIS when the network is heavily loaded and latencies rise. When you log in to a Sun box (most often NIS-ified) for example, you will see that it takes ages. When you switch off NIS in /etc/nsswitch.conf you get quite a speedup on this for most cases. Apart from DNS. You will have to replace libresolv.* for getting that without NIS. :-( Solution: Very simple, make every machine a NIS slave server. Works here like a charm across 6 machines (tiny network, I know). Once in a while a machine pops to an external one, but that can be solved easily enough by killing ypbind and restarting it. I have not looked at either memory or disk usage. Hope this helps. Nick > Does NIS support any kind of caching? Or does it go out to the NIS server > every time someone logs in? Is there a way to set something up? After I > start putting most of the systems on this, I imagine that network usage is > going to raise dramatically... > > Thanks for any info you can provide! > > ================================================ > > Nick > nick@chromatix.com > Web Page: http://www.lopresti.dhs.org/users/nick > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > -- e-Mail: hibma@skylink.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message