From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 23 15:58:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA19142 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 15:58:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com (ppp.bazzle.com [206.103.246.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA19133 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 15:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ejc@localhost) by gargoyle.bazzle.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA01952; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:58:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 18:58:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Eric J. Chet" To: Robert Eckardt cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS-master/slave w/ 2.1.7+2.2.2 In-Reply-To: <199708231709.TAA01245@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Robert Eckardt wrote: > Hello, > > from searching the archives and asking on questions I got no clue. > > The problem is simply that I want to use a 2.2.2 box as a NIS slave server > with a 2.1.7 box as a NIS master. > > However, when pushing from the master with > % yppush -d XYZ amd.home > yppush: Transfer request refused by ypserv > > On the slave side I get messages like: > ypserv[24772]: couldn't find master for map amd.home@XYZ > ypserv[24772]: host at ZYX (134.147.xxx.yyy) may be pulling my leg > > Needless to say, all clients (2.2.2 and 2.1.7) are ypbound to the NIS master. > Also, I tried w/ and w/o securenets, no change. > On the slave exists an empty directory /var/yp/XYZ. > > > Any comments thankfully appreciated, > Robert Hello The only way I could get the first transfer was manually using ypxfr. Start rpc.ypxfrd, and then use ypxfr. After that everything worked normally with the slave updates. Eric Chet -- ejchet@lucent.com || ejc@bazzle.com Systems Analysts - Specializing in OOA, OOD and CORBA Analysts International Corporation