Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-23 Thread David Robillard

I have 2 NICS in the master node of a small cluster.
bge0 is connected to the outside world with a FQDN
and registered DNS IP address.  bge1 is connected to
a 192.168.0.x internal network.  I'm trying to configure
NIS for the internal network, but ypinit is grabbing the
FQDN.  I've read the Handbook and ypinit manual page
without too much enlightment. :(

What I'm after is

192.168.0.10  NIS master server
192.168.0.11  NIS slave server
192.168.0.[12-15] NIS clients

Anyone have a pointer to a method to achieve my goals.


I would _strongly_ suggest that you run you firewall from another
machine instead of using you NIS master for this. This really is
Security 101 :)
Check out OpenBSD with pf for this purpose or use a Cisco PIX (you can
find several on eBay).

But if you don't want/can do this, why don't you setup a jail for you
NIS master? You can bind the jail to the RFC 1918 IP address range.
Therefore, starting up ypbind inside the jail would only see the
192.168.0/24 network and bind to it. See jail(8), jls(8) and jexec(8).
You might also want to check mount_nullfs(8) to help you with the
jail's ports tree. If you need help with the jail setup, feel free to
email me off the list.

David

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Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-20 Thread Steve Kargl
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:55:22PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote:
 At 05:48 PM 5/19/2006, Steve Kargl wrote:
I have 2 NICS in the master node of a small cluster.
bge0 is connected to the outside world with a FQDN
and registered DNS IP address.  bge1 is connected to
a 192.168.0.x internal network.  I'm trying to configure
NIS for the internal network, but ypinit is grabbing the
FQDN.  I've read the Handbook and ypinit manual page
without too much enlightment. :(

What I'm after is

192.168.0.10  NIS master server
192.168.0.11  NIS slave server
192.168.0.[12-15] NIS clients

Anyone have a pointer to a method to achieve my goals.


 If memory serves YP will grab the first interface.  If you switch the 
 stacks/IPs on the interfaces I think you will get what you want.
 

I can't even get NIS set up with ypinit.  It unconditionally
uses /bin/hostname, which will grab the FQDN of the system.
You have given me an idea.  I can change rc.conf to set hostname
to the name I've given 192.168.0.10, put that on bge0, put 
the IP address associated with the FQDN on bge1, and reboot.
This might permit NIS to come up.  Though this seems like a hack,
because when someone connects to the seem via the FQDN, 
/bin/hostname will give the wrong answer.

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Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-20 Thread Chuck Swiger

Steve Kargl wrote:

I can't even get NIS set up with ypinit.  It unconditionally
uses /bin/hostname, which will grab the FQDN of the system.
You have given me an idea.  I can change rc.conf to set hostname
to the name I've given 192.168.0.10, put that on bge0, put 
the IP address associated with the FQDN on bge1, and reboot.

This might permit NIS to come up.  Though this seems like a hack,
because when someone connects to the seem via the FQDN, 
/bin/hostname will give the wrong answer.


Associating the ypdomain with the FQDN from the DNS is convenient, and a 
convention that many follow, but it is not required, by any means.  The 
O'Reilly Managing NIS and NFS book is a fine reference on this sort of 
thing, BTW, and is probably available online in PDF form if you look.


Nevertheless, YP/NIS predates many of the more convoluted network 
designs that people set up nowadays, and was intended for machines which 
have a single identity even if they have multiple NICs-- Sun used to 
assign the same MAC address to all NICs on one machine, to ensure that 
people respected collision domains.  It is not normally desirable to set 
up a YP/NIS master server on a machine which is multihomed in the sense 
of doing NAT or needing a firewall to separate internal from external, 
and obvious a firewall machine running zero or the minimal necessary 
services is a lot more secure


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Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-20 Thread Steve Kargl
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 12:33:21PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
 Steve Kargl wrote:
 I can't even get NIS set up with ypinit.  It unconditionally
 uses /bin/hostname, which will grab the FQDN of the system.
 You have given me an idea.  I can change rc.conf to set hostname
 to the name I've given 192.168.0.10, put that on bge0, put 
 the IP address associated with the FQDN on bge1, and reboot.
 This might permit NIS to come up.  Though this seems like a hack,
 because when someone connects to the seem via the FQDN, 
 /bin/hostname will give the wrong answer.
 
 Associating the ypdomain with the FQDN from the DNS is convenient, and a 
 convention that many follow, but it is not required, by any means.  The 
 O'Reilly Managing NIS and NFS book is a fine reference on this sort of 
 thing, BTW, and is probably available online in PDF form if you look.

Thanks for the pointer.  I'll go looking for this book.

 Nevertheless, YP/NIS predates many of the more convoluted network 
 designs that people set up nowadays, and was intended for machines which 
 have a single identity even if they have multiple NICs-- Sun used to 
 assign the same MAC address to all NICs on one machine, to ensure that 
 people respected collision domains.

I don't see how this is convoluted.  In fact, I would be inclined
to claim that it is the defacto method for setting up an internal
computational cluster

 s  --- node1
internet -F- FQDN|master --- w  --- node2
 t  --- node3

where swt = switch.

 It is not normally desirable to set up a YP/NIS master server on
 a machine which is multihomed in the sense of doing NAT or needing
 a firewall to separate internal from external, and obvious a
 firewall machine running zero or the minimal necessary services is
 a lot more secure

Note that -F- actually has at least one firewall.  Only people in
the apl.washington.edu domain can get to FQDN.  I was hoping to 
use NIS to simplify the propagation of info (eg., passwd, hosts,
etc.) from master to the nodes.  Propagating the info by hand
isn't too bad because I only have five nodes represently.  However,
I hope to grow an additional 11 nodes.

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Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-19 Thread Steve Kargl
I have 2 NICS in the master node of a small cluster.
bge0 is connected to the outside world with a FQDN
and registered DNS IP address.  bge1 is connected to
a 192.168.0.x internal network.  I'm trying to configure
NIS for the internal network, but ypinit is grabbing the
FQDN.  I've read the Handbook and ypinit manual page
without too much enlightment. :(

What I'm after is

192.168.0.10  NIS master server
192.168.0.11  NIS slave server
192.168.0.[12-15] NIS clients

Anyone have a pointer to a method to achieve my goals.

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Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-19 Thread Derek Ragona
If memory serves YP will grab the first interface.  If you switch the 
stacks/IPs on the interfaces I think you will get what you want.


-Derek


At 05:48 PM 5/19/2006, Steve Kargl wrote:

I have 2 NICS in the master node of a small cluster.
bge0 is connected to the outside world with a FQDN
and registered DNS IP address.  bge1 is connected to
a 192.168.0.x internal network.  I'm trying to configure
NIS for the internal network, but ypinit is grabbing the
FQDN.  I've read the Handbook and ypinit manual page
without too much enlightment. :(

What I'm after is

192.168.0.10  NIS master server
192.168.0.11  NIS slave server
192.168.0.[12-15] NIS clients

Anyone have a pointer to a method to achieve my goals.

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Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-19 Thread Lawrence Horvath

There isnt a way to specify which ip or interface NIS will bind to?

On 5/19/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

If memory serves YP will grab the first interface.  If you switch the
stacks/IPs on the interfaces I think you will get what you want.

 -Derek


At 05:48 PM 5/19/2006, Steve Kargl wrote:
I have 2 NICS in the master node of a small cluster.
bge0 is connected to the outside world with a FQDN
and registered DNS IP address.  bge1 is connected to
a 192.168.0.x internal network.  I'm trying to configure
NIS for the internal network, but ypinit is grabbing the
FQDN.  I've read the Handbook and ypinit manual page
without too much enlightment. :(

What I'm after is

192.168.0.10  NIS master server
192.168.0.11  NIS slave server
192.168.0.[12-15] NIS clients

Anyone have a pointer to a method to achieve my goals.

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