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normaly a YP domain is short, and has nothing to do with the FQDN, but
besides that, have you run "make" in /var/yp? and is the ypserv running
properly?
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
"Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Munir Nassar wrote:
> say, i am finally getting around to installing the NIS
> server... now the server seems to be installing fine
> (at least acording to the HOWTO) and it is up and
> running but the YP client does not want to work...
>
> here is a snipping:
> <SNIP>
> [nassarmu at palpatine nassarmu]$ ypcat passwd
> No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Can't bind to
> server which serves this domain
> </SNIP>
>
> and here is when i run ypbind -debug it just sits
> there doing the ping for a minute or so... and then it
> tries again...
> <SNIP>
> [root at palpatine nassarmu]# /sbin/ypbind -debug
> parsing config file
> Trying entry: ypserver palpatine
> parsed ypserver palpatiimnimpleiit gt g
> add_server() domain: palpatine.lab406.com, host:
> palpatine, nobroadcast, slot: 0[Welcome to ypbind-mt,
> version 1.7]
>
> ping host 'palpatine', domain 'palpatine.lab406.com'
> Pinging all active server.
> ping host 'palpatine', domain 'palpatine.lab406.com'
> Signal (2) for quitting program arrived.
> </SNIP>
>
> anybody here know why it would do this? anybody come
> across this before?
>
> -munir
>
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