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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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