NIS setup

[Chuck Tuffli]

Yup, in /etc/rc.conf

nis_client_enable="YES"
nisdomainname="sierra"
nis_client_flags="-S sierra,earth,mercury"

sldev12-l# ypwhich
ypwhich: can't yp_bind: reason: Domain not bound

I doubled checked and both ypbind and portmap are running. In trying
random things found via google, the following sequence seems to fix(?)
the problem:

# killall ypbind
# ypbind -ypsetme
# ypset sierra

where 'sierra' is the NIS domain name. Does this help explain what is
happening? Tnx again.

---chuck

On 15 Dec 2005 13:50:08 GMT, Oliver Fromme
<check+irjjo300rsut1zoy at xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chuck Tuffli <ctuffli at xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > I'm trying to setup a NIS client for the first time and am having some
>  > trouble. I used an older FreeBSD article as a guide
>  > (http://www.freebsddiary.org/nis-client.php), and wanted to know if
>  > there are any Dragonfly specifics that I needed to be aware of. The
>  > machine is running 1.3.7-DEVELOPMENT built from sources a couple of
>  > days ago. Generically, NIS doesn't seem to work. Specifically,
>  > something like the below errors out.
>  >
>  > sldev12-l# ypcat passwd
>  > ypcat: no such map passwd.byname. reason: Can't bind to server which
>  > serves this domain
>
> What does the "ypwhich" command print?
>
>  > sldev12-l# rpcinfo -p
>  >   program vers proto   port
>  >    100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
>
> Is that all?  Here it says:
>
> # rpcinfo -p
> program vers proto   port
>        100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
>        100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
>        100004    1   udp   1015  ypserv
>        100004    2   udp   1015  ypserv
>        100004    1   tcp   1023  ypserv
>        100004    2   tcp   1023  ypserv
>        100007    2   udp   1001  ypbind
>        100007    2   tcp   1021  ypbind
>
> Note that all of my NIS clients are also NIS slave servers
> and bind to themselves.  That's why ypserv appears above,
> too.  The advantage is that the clients are mostly immune
> against server problems (downtime), because each client
> keeps a local copy of the maps.  It also keeps network
> traffic down.  Only when something changes on the master,
> the changes are pushed to all slaves (i.e. to all clients).
>
> Best regards
>    Oliver
>
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