Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:51:17 -0500 From: jc@irbs.com (John Capo) To: rbickers@intercenter.net (Ron Bickers) Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ypbind and many interface aliases Message-ID: <19970219115117.KS43971@irbs.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970219105533.2668F-100000@bigboy.intercenter.net>; from Ron Bickers on Feb 19, 1997 10:59:35 -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970219102234.21032A-100000@nero.in-design.com> <Pine.NEB.3.95.970219105533.2668F-100000@bigboy.intercenter.net>
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Quoting Ron Bickers (rbickers@intercenter.net): > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.6 + those patches that are suppose to show up as > 2.1.7 someday. > > ypbind will not bind with more than about 30 interface aliases (as in > 'ifconfig x.x.x.x alias' for web hosting). The portmapper forks like mad > until 'Cannot fork' messages show up in the log and until I kill ypbind. > Anyone else using yp and many interfaces without this problem? Or if you > have this problem, what's the fix? > The best solution is to not use aliases on a broadcast interface if you are running YP. Alias a subnet to lo0 instead and announce a route to the aliased net. Quite a while back I filed a PR with a hack to getbroadcastnets() that gets around the problem. I can dig it up if you want it. John Capo
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