Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:21:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Howard Leadmon <howardl@account.abs.net> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS resolution failures wtih NIS?? Help... Message-ID: <200008140021.UAA93846@account.abs.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10008131647350.23090-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> from Tom at "Aug 13, 2000 04:49:35 pm"
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> > 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. Here is the line I was talking about: # The following line encodes the YP_INTERDOMAIN key into the hosts.byname # and hosts.byaddr maps so that ypserv(8) will do DNS lookups to resolve # hosts not in the current domain. Commenting this line out will disable # the DNS lookups. #B=-b --- Howard Leadmon - howardl@abs.net - http://www.abs.net ABSnet Internet Services - Phone: 410-361-8160 - FAX: 410-361-8162 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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