On 11 Oct 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >A year ago I tried out NIS and had it working on my Slackware system. > >(I didn't actually need to use it, so I only ran it for a day.) > > Ah I see what you want. > > You don't need NIS to resolve hostnames. In fact, I'm pretty sure the
> This week a new version of the GPL ypbind (3.00) was announced. I'll > > Until then, you could get the new ypbind-3.00 yourself and put it > in /usr/local/bin. That should get you started. > > ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/linux/local/yp/ypbind-3.0.tar.gz I did see this announcement, but didn't think much of it. I'm so used to everything working well on my Linux system that the possibility of needing a newer version of ypbind didn't even cross my mind. So, within minutes of getting your mail I had downloaded, compiled and installed this new ypbind. And, it _works_, just fine! Thank-you! There is an issue, however. I'm on an ISDN line to the office. We like the feature that ISDN drops the line after a period of inactivity. Then, you just hit a key (or jiggle the mouse in an X-app window), and within a second the ISDN connection is back up. ypbind checks that the NIS server is still there every minute (the period in the old version. The new man page just says "periodically"). The man page doesn't show an option to override this, so I may just put one in myself. Do you see any problem with this? BTW, you mentioned that I should just use DNS. I agree, and would prefer to do so, but I can't seem to get past the firewall in the office to the DNS server at the ISP. With ppp I could, but not with this new isdn connection. The big difference is that I'm on a different subnet now. We've opened up the firewall to this subnet. All other services (ftp, telnet, etc) are OK but not DNS. That's why I've gone to NIS for now. The NIS server is on the inside of the firewall, and passes outside name resolution to the ISP's DNS server. Lastly, here are a couple of corrections to the nis.debian.howto: 3. If you don't trust your network, edit /etc/init.d/nis and add a list of your NIS servers after the call to ypbind like this: ypbind -S nisserver or ypbind -S nisserver1,nisserver2,nisserver3 Two things here. The man page says: -S domain,server... so your example should be ypbind -S domainname,nisserver, etc. Also, the /etc/init.d/nis file is calling start-stop-daemon, so the parameters actually need to be added like this: start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec ${NET}/ypbind -- -S veritas,192.159.106.123 The new ypbind version 3 doesn't use the -S option anymore, so these corrections are probably history anyway. ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
