NIS - "Could not read ypservers map" during "make"

[pll at lanminds.com]

>>>>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, "ken" == ken at flyingtoasters.net wrote:

  +> No.  My understanding is that ypbind is only run on NIS clients,
  +> no?

  ken> No.  It's run on everything -- the server is, indeed, still a
  ken> client (unless for some bizarre reason it was determined that
  ken> even though it served the data, it didn't need to see it.  I've
  ken> seen that once or twice for security reasons.)

It should be required that NIS server be a client.  In fact, it is 
usually recommended that you don't run ypbind on the server since, if 
for some bizarre reason, it binds to a system other than itself, you 
can have some really serious problems.  I've seen this far too often.

I'm almost positive that Derek and I did not run ypbind on the NIS 
master at MCL, based on all the problems we had with our inherited 
environment when we were back at Bay which did exactly this.

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