Oops, wrong operating system. Your yp.conf entry should work. It must be having trouble getting to the ypserver. Sorry about that.
- Tony Rudié -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ehrlich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:26 AM To: Rudie, Tony Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [BBLISA] ypbind and ICMP host unreachable? On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Rudie, Tony wrote: > Are you running ypbind -broadcast? If so, you have to have ypserv > running on the same subnet. The alternative is to add IP addresses to > the (I think) /var/yp/binding/<domainname>/ypservers file, and then > ypbind will not run in broadcast mode. We hate doing this because it's > another item to maintain locally on every client. I manually configured /etc/yp.conf with domain MY_NIS_DOMAIN server my_nis_server I'll try the IP address scheme you show, and see what that does. > > The other thing we are often able to do is get the network guys to add > "helper" statements to the routers so that ypbind DOES get routed to > specific (ypserver) hosts. I'm considerably fuzzy about how they do > that, but I can get details if you're interested. > Both the test and production setups are on simple lans - server and clients are connected to an unmanaged switch, each with /etc/hosts acting as local dns. Scott > > - Tony Rudié > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [BBLISA] ypbind and ICMP host unreachable? > > Brief refresher again - > > RedHat Enterprise 5 server, CentOS 5 clients. Test setup, everything works > fine. Production environment, clients cannot bind to yp on server. > > In trying to track down the ypbind problem I'm having, I discovered tcpdump > produces ICMP host <yp server> unreachable only when ypbind is run. > > I'm doing some googling now to try and find an answer. > > I'd be happy to entertain any feedback this list has, too. > > Thanks. > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa > > _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
