Hi,if you have multiple NIS-domains (and servers) blocking forever in the lib when a domain cannot be reached will hang up any application that tries to get some information.
We have a NIS-cache-Module integrated into apache, radius, .. for authentification and/or authorisation and such a situation will lock up the application, even if only one domain does not work.
So I think this change should be integrated into all future releases.It is compartible with "previous" bahaviour if you do not explicitly activate the do-not-hangup-mode.
And we need it here.But I can add it in "our" version all the time in the future again, if you decide not to keep it in future releases.
best regards W. Stukenbrock dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
Synopsis: yplib will hang forever if no server can be found State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost State-Changed-When: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:48:19 +0000 State-Changed-Why: Committed by Christos back in March. Unless there's an explicit need to, I think we won't bring this into netbsd-6. Let us know if you need it.