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Date:      Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:38:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Howard Leadmon <howardl@account.abs.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DNS resolution failures wtih NIS??  Help...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10008131737410.23090-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200008140021.UAA93846@account.abs.net>

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On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Howard Leadmon wrote:

> 
> > >   I decided to start using NIS between a couple FBSD boxes, and overall things
> > > are going well with one big exception.  Seems if an IP address connects to 
> > > my server that won't resolve, then NIS hangs the session and I end up with
> > > stacks of sendmail and ftpd's that just pile up till the box gets overloaded
> > > with processes.. :(
> > 
> >   Second, make sure you are not using NIS for host resolution, then NIS
> > will not even be queried.  It is bad idea unless you distribute /etc/hosts
> > via NIS, which is not a such good idea in the era of DNS anyhow.
> > 
> > Tom
> > Uniserve
> 
> 
>  Is there some special trick to making it not do host resolution, as I have
> no need to do this.  
> 
> In /var/yp/Makefile, I commented out the one entry that I thought may have
> controlled that, if there is something elese I need to do could you point me
> in the right direction.

  Make sure "nis" is NOT in /etc/hosts.conf

Tom
Uniserve



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