In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Perhaps you have setup your ethernet / localhost interfaces wrong? NIS
>depends on broadcasts.. If the broadcast address is wrong, it will not
>work. Check /etc/init.d/network.
I thought that using broadcasting to find ypserver was considered
a security hazard, and it was better to explicitly specify the
server location? (ie, that this is what NIS+, and hence NYS was
going to require)?
Hmmmm.... course, I've not read much documenation since I got
my system setup nearly 2 years ago... perhaps time for a
refresher...
mrc
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