From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 4 12:49:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECBFD37B7BD for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:49:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12cZKB-0006ov-0Y; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:49:20 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA68773; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:54:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:55:43 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Waite, Michael" Cc: "'Kris Kirby'" , "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: nis issues with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2F7E@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Waite, Michael wrote: > Yep, > "fatfinger" in the resolv.conf files. > > Curious though as you do not have to specify a yp server any where. > It specifies the ypdomainname but never points directly at a specific > server. > Is this necessary. > Would performance be better to point directly to the yp server? > If so which file would you modify "/etc/rc.conf"? This isn't necessary - ypbind locates a suitable server using a broadcast when it starts. It then uses unicast to work with the server. You can use ypset to point it at a specific server I think. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message