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Date:      07 Feb 1999 18:26:02 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIS woes
Message-ID:  <xzp7ltuunv9.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Bill Paul's message of "Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:25:40 -0500 (EST)"
References:  <199902071725.MAA15845@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>

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Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> writes:
> Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Dag-Erling 
> Smorgrav had to walk into mine and say:
> > Luna, however, seems absolutely allergic to NIS. Everything is
> > configured correctly as far as I can see
> [chop]
> 
> Sure, that's what they all say. The N in NIS stands for Network. This
> means that you should be concentrating your diagnostic efforts on the
> network. Are you using an insane amount of IP aliases? Did you try
> to run tcpdump on the interface that connects the two machines together?
> From both sides? Are your netmasks correct?
> 
> Did you check to see if 'domainname' returns the correct information?

Yes to most of the above. Tcpdump does not work on PLIP links, and I
do not use IP aliases at all.

Network problems would not explain why rpcinfo, ypset and ypwhich
hang.

> > Running the server in debug mode shows absolutely no activity of any
> > kind from luna. There's nothing wrong with the network connection
> > (LPIP);
> I don't believe you. Like I said: run tcpdump on both sides. See if
> you actually have traffic pertaining to NIS travelling between the
> two machines.

If you don't believe me, that's your problem. You might want to try
adopting a more positive attitude.

> What the hell is LPIP anyway.

A typo for PLIP (parallell line IP)

> > Any suggestions?
> Tcpdump, tcpdump and more tcpdump.

Useless on PLIP links.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no

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