Subject: Re: Back again: NIS does not work.
To: Grey Wolf <greywolf@siteROCK.com>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 09/15/2000 23:45:47
On Fri Sep 15 2000 at 13:27:23 -0700, Grey Wolf wrote:
> NIS/YP hosed.
> 
> Server: NetBSD/sparc 1.5E; Client: NetBSD/i386 1.5E
> 
> - replaced portmap with rpcbind
> 
> - installed /etc/netconfig
> 
> - "make build" got at least far into the build as to rebuild libc and
>   libutil
> 
> - ypserv starts and appears to run
> 
> - rpc.yppasswdd starts and appears to run
> 
> - ypbind hangs
> 
> `domainname` is non-null.  I'm missing something, here.

IIRC this happened to me also because of some leftover crud in
/etc/rc.d. rm it entirely and do a fresh make install, that's what
helped me.

-- 
Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>                    Of course he runs NetBSD.