Package: nis Version: 3.17.1-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I use a NetBSD NIS server for a long time. This servers acts as a NIS server (master) and some workstations use it (Linux, FreeBSD...). I have noticed this evening that my Debian Buster was unable to use this server anymore. When I start nis, I obtain in log : Aug 17 17:20:08 hilbert systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start NIS client and server daemons.... Aug 17 17:20:20 hilbert nis[3775]: Starting NIS services: ypbindbinding to YP server...........................................failed (backgrounded). Aug 17 17:20:20 hilbert nis[3775]: . I think that /etc/init.d/nis script tries to use ypwhich before starting ypbind. Thus, ypwhich returns : root@hilbert:~# LANG=C ypwhich ypwhich: Can't communicate with ypbind If I manually start ypbind with ypbind -d -broadcast, I obtain : root@hilbert:~# ypbind -d -broadcast 4388: add_server() domain: systella.fr, broadcast 4388: [Welcome to ypbind-mt, version 1.38] 4388: ping interval is 20 seconds 4388: rebind interval is 900 seconds 4390: do_broadcast() for domain 'systella.fr' is called 4390: Answer for domain 'systella.fr' from server 'legendre.systella.fr' 4390: leave do_broadcast() for domain 'systella.fr' 4388: ypbindproc_domain_2_svc (systella.fr) 4388: Pinging all active servers. 4388: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: server '192.168.10.128', port 754 4388: Status: YPBIND_SUCC_VAL 4390: Pinging all active servers. 4390: Pinging all active servers. and ypwhich runs as expected : hilbert:[~] > LANG=C ypwhich legendre.systella.fr hilbert:[~] > Best regards, JB -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages nis depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.69 ii hostname 3.20 ii libc6 2.27-5 ii libgdbm5 1.14.1-6+b1 ii libsystemd0 239-7 ii lsb-base 9.20170808 ii make 4.2.1-1.2 ii netbase 5.4 ii rpcbind [portmap] 0.2.3-0.6 nis recommends no packages. Versions of packages nis suggests: pn nscd <none> -- debconf information: * nis/domain: systella.fr