Linux NIS client to Solaris NIS server on another subnet

[Tom Buskey]

On 1/25/06, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
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> On 1/25/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
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> > Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> writes:
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> > I remember in the pre-Solaris 8 days we would always have a nis slave
> > on each subnet for clients to bind to which got the maps pushed to
> > them by from the master.  This might be the work around we used.
> > Build a slave that binds to itself and gets updates from the master
> > pushed to it using cron and ypxfer.
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> I think I might be doing this too.  Seems a shame to have a Sun box as a
> NIS slave (among other things) and a Linux client on a gigabit network all
> by themselves.
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As soon as I created a NIS slave on the subnet,  the Linux NIS client
worked.




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