Re: YP in a large environment

2003-01-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
In that case, why are you using 'ypcat password' on all of those systems? Can you find another way to accomplish what you're trying to do? Honestly, I'd expect ypcat to be placing a much greater load on your NIS servers than the rebinding you describe. Perhaps you should make sure your problems

Re: YP in a large environment

2003-01-16 Thread Tom Wike
Gordon, Yeah, we are running the nscd daemon on all Linux YP clients already Thanks! On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 21:04, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> We have a situation where the Linux NIS client generates a great amount >> of spurious traffic that itself negatively impacts both the client and >> its server

Re: YP in a large environment

2003-01-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 11:48, Tom Wike wrote: > We have a situation where the Linux NIS client generates a great amount > of spurious traffic that itself negatively impacts both the client and > its server. ... > So how does all of this play out? Based on observing traffic patterns to > our NIS se

YP in a large environment

2003-01-15 Thread Tom Wike
We have a situation where the Linux NIS client generates a great amount of spurious traffic that itself negatively impacts both the client and its server. Based on observed behavior by snooping at the NIS server, and confirmed by source code perusal, NIS clients act in the following manner: 1.