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Date:      Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:10:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Stefan Molnar <stefan@csudsu.com>
To:        president@flyingcroc.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIS across a subnet in 3.2-R?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990629144545.8236o-100000@clockwork.csudsu.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906282103140.13842-100000@gilliam.flyingcroc.com>

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I have NIS setup on many diffrent machine on diffrent networks.
But accross subnets without NIS slaves, no.  But with NIS slaves
on each subnet is not that hard to do.  I even have Sun NIS clients
on FreeBSD NIS Servers, and Sun NIS Server on FreeBSD NIS clients.

Stefan 





On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Andrew N. Edmond (Nero) 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 :)
> 
> .. andy
> 
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