Hi Alexander, 2008/12/23 Alexander Farber <alexander.far...@gmail.com>
> Hello, > > we have around 20 RHEL/CentOS machines (one of > them acting as NIS server) and 3 NetApps at work, > but also have 1 OpenBSD (virtual) machine acting > as an openvpn-Gateway. Until recently it worked > well, but now whenever I reboot it the ypbind would > just hang. Does anybody has an idea, how to debug it? > > When I run it from command prompt it will hang too > and I see the messages (which is strange because > Linux machines work fine): > > YP server for domain abl_bo not responding, still trying > YP server for domain abl_bo not responding, still trying > > When I run fstat in another xterm it will hang too. > > Here are my config files and the dmesg is at the bottom: > [snipped...] Sometimes the broadcast does not work. So I always put the name of the server to which the client is to be bound as follows: mkdir /etc/yp echo "your-nis-server-fqdn" > /etc/yp/abl_bo I also had a CentOS NIS master server in my setup which was not picked up by the broadcast. The man page pointed me to this route. HTH Regards. -- Ajitabh Pandey http://www.ajitabhpandey.info/ | http://www.unixclinic.net/ ICQ - 150615062 Registered Linux User - 240748
