Subject: Re: 3.0 YP lookup latency
To: Stephen Jones <smj@cirr.com>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/21/2006 09:00:38
On Jun 20,  2:48pm, smj@cirr.com (Stephen Jones) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: 3.0 YP lookup latency

| Okay, this daily build (netbsd-3-0/200605220000Z) is displaying the  
| symptoms.
| It doesn't appear to be in rpcbind or ypbind itself, but an  
| associated library.
| It seems when the query is made the the ypserv process on the server  
| will log each
| user id in the password file when the -l flag is on.  Interestingly  
| the userids are
| sorted in alphabetical order .. any reason for this? ;-)

My guess is that it is an artifact of the passwd file being hashed into
a db file. I guess I'll have to setup a yp domain myself and test.

christos