On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Dear Sirs.
> I have problems with an installation of NIS/YP and it seems to be
> some kind of nasty to me.
> My boxes are running all FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE and at this moment I
> switched off all IP filters, snort or inetd's option "-wW" to avoid
> blocking some services.
>
> I installed one machine as a master server and this worked fine.
> This machine runs "ypserv", "ypbind -s -S XXXXXX,localhost (or name of host)",
> "rpc.ypxfrd" and "rpc.yppasswdd". At first I tried also to run "keyserv"
> and "rpc.ypupdatedd" due to needs of secure RPC.
>
> Main problem is, that ypbind is not able to connect to the local server
> "ypserv" or when creating/changing new maps, the master server can not
> contact its slave servers, no matter why. The error is always that it
> could not create an UDP handle or "no such host or address" or similar.
> What's wrong? When running inetd -lwW I assured in /etc/hosts.allow all
> services like ypserv, rpc.XXX, keyserv and yppush,ypxfr to be accessd
> from the local net, also the IP filter is transparent for all packets
> on the lokal net. But it is always the same, no contact to the master
> or slave servers.
>
> On hosts which act as clients could never be initiated a service connection to
> master or slave server (all machines are on the same network).
>
> I tried the simplest installation described in the handbook - without success,
> the same behaviour (also on new machines without any specialized security
>installaions).
> I regret that SecureRPC is not mentioned further in the handbook (about how to use
> keys etc, maybe this is focus for the malfunction anywy).
>
> So, at last I would like to as whether the NIS/YP implementation on FreeBSD is
> broken or not?
It works fine. I've have a 4.2-STABLE system running in hybrid mode
(both a server and client), pluse a 3.4-STABLE slave server.
No NIS services use inetd so it pointless to pursue that.
Do you have /var/yp/securenets set up? It sounds like it is not.
> Thanks,
> Oliver
>
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