Does the netbsd box have all the necessary maps, both forward and
	reverse? Can you ypcat any to all of the maps on the netbsd box
	while its disconnected from the network?

		David/absolute

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On 18 May 1998, stephen farrell wrote:

> 
> I'm having some problems setting up an NIS slave server on netbsd in a
> small domain (varies from say 6-12 computers).  (incidentally, I'd
> like to upgrade this netbsd box to master server at some point when
> I'm happy with it's functionality)
> 
> This machine is a sparc 1 (4/60) running netbsd 1.3.1.  Right now I"m
> trying to run it as a slave server (master is a freebsd 2.2.6
> box)... clients are a mix of solaris/sparc&intel and freebsd boxes.
> 
> The problem I'm having is that when the master server is shut off (it
> happens to be my desktop box and so gets shut off rather frequently as
> I'm fiddling with it--this is why i want the netbsd/sparc to be the
> master ultimately), the switchover to the slave server (the netbsd box
> in question) doesn't happen very well.... in fact, often the netbsd
> box itself locks up, and then obviously the clients don't switch over!
> sometimes the netbsd box is ok, and the switchover occurs, albeit
> slower than i expected (10 seconds to 1 minute--why not
> instantaneous?) on the various clients.  Moreover, when I bring the
> freebsd master down, the netbsd slave is wedged for about 5-15 minutes
> *after the master is back up* before it even will accept even a root
> login on console again (kind of defeats the purpose of a secondary NIS
> server, I think ;-).
> 
> Ok... so some details: the master server is set with ypbind running
> the -S option to only bind to itself (the -S is a freebsd thing).  the
> netbsd slave server has /var/yp/binding/<domain>.ypservers set only to
> localhost.  /etc/resolv.conf includes "lookup file bind yp", and
> localhost appears in /etc/hosts.  Both the freebsd master and netbsd
> slave have securenets set up to point to localhost and my network.
> yes, i've noticed that the format for securenets for netbsd and
> freebsd is the exact opposite; yes i have it set up right on
> respective machines.  I've shut off amd and there are no nfs running
> period on the netbsd slave.  The slave is running its own named.  It
> is my understanding that this means that this netbsd box should not
> care at all if the master server is down, since it is bound to
> itself...  however this does not appear to be the case.
> 
> I've tried some other variations (like using the hostname instead of
> localhost in ypservers on netbsd) and have had little if any success
> with many of the permutations I've tried.
> 
> this is after unplugging the network from the master server for 10
> seconds: 
> 
> existing-shell-on-netbsd-slave $ ypwhich
> localhost
> 
> some-other-computer $ telnet netbsd-slave
> Trying <some ip>...
> Connected to netbsd-slave
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> NetBSD/sparc (netbsd-slave) (ttyp0)
> 
> login: sfarrell
> [5 minute pause--sometimes yp timed out messages... yp server not
> responding and so on]
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
> 
> --
> 
> Steve Farrell
>