Re: [gentoo-user] Ybind problems - doesn't like YP server

[Bryan Whitehead <driver@megahappy.net>]

FWIW I've never had broadcast NIS work all that well in linux. Instead, I 
just list all my NIS server master/slaves.

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Jim Hatfield wrote:

> We have a Solaris based YP server.
>
> On a fresh install I set /etc/yp.conf to:
> domain insignia broadcast
>
> and set NISDOMAIN to "insignia" in /etc/conf.d/domainname.
>
> If I run "ypbind -debug" I get:
>
>> speyburn ~ # ypbind -debug
>> parsing config file
>> Trying entry: domain insignia broadcast
>> parsed domain 'insignia' broadcast
>> add_server() domain: insignia, broadcast
>> [Welcome to ypbind-mt, version 1.17.2]
>>
>> do_broadcast() for domain 'insignia' is called
>> Answer for domain 'insignia' from server 'panther.internal.local'
>> leave do_broadcast() for domain 'insignia'
>> Pinging all active server.
>> Pinging all active server.
>
> The YP server is correctly identified. I can ping it OK
> in another window. However if I do a ypwhich in another
> window I get:
>
>> speyburn ~ # ypwhich
>> can't yp_bind: Reason: Domain not bound
>
> It doesn't make any difference if I use the "-broken-server"
> flag.
>
> This was working fine on the machine which failed and I'm
> in the process of replacing, and I'm pretty sure I didn't
> do any more than the above.
>
>
>
>

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