From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 1:53:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fling.sanbi.ac.za (fling.sanbi.ac.za [196.38.142.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263F237B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 01:53:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from irvine@sanbi.ac.za) Received: from tango.sanbi.ac.za ([196.38.142.79] helo=sanbi.ac.za) by fling.sanbi.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #4) id 14aE7t-0003uh-00; Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:51:29 +0200 Message-ID: <3AA4B31A.10BDDF2E@sanbi.ac.za> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:51:22 +0200 From: Irvine Short Organization: SANBI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.5 IP32) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert L Sowders Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUN TO BSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert L Sowders wrote: > > No the hapless slowaris admin would have to use the FreeBSD box as the NIS > master then. What a shame. I have that situation as I was having a few hassles using Irix master and slave NIS servers. Now I have a FreeBSD NIS master and two IRIX 6.5 NIS slave servers. They can pull their maps, no problem, but when I do cd /var/yp and then a make I get all sorts of messages like this: yppush: transfer of map group.bygid to server fred.splat.ac.za failed yppush: status returned by ypxfr: no such host yppush: foxtrot.sanbi.ac.za : couldn't create udp handle to NIS server: RPC: Unknown host This is all lies! I can look up fred with nslookup. Fred's in the hosts file. all over the place. I've asked before on this list and on comp.unix.admin but no-one's had any useful suggestions. I'm seriously considering movaing away from FreeBSD for NIS. -- Irvine Short Sys Admin SANBI, University of the Western Cape, South Africa http://www.sanbi.ac.za tel: +27-21-959 3645 fax: +27-21-959 2512 cel: +27-82-494 3828 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message