Re: yp and such (was: Re: [Guinness-list] Congratulations, and a question)

[Scott <doty acm org>]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 01:15:20PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> In a very quick test, the pinstripe ypbind seemed to insist that a NIS
> server be found with subnet broadcasts (which, needless to say, severely
> messes up if the NIS server is on another subnet). If this really was a
> bug, I suppose Guinness fixes this (I'll check somewhere this week).

Thanks for the info.  I think you can get around that by
modifying /etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind, commenting out the following
line:

   OTHER_YPBIND_OPTS="-broadcast"

While you're at it, you might want to make it:

   OTHER_YPBIND_OPTS="-no-ping"

Does anyone at RedHat have anything to report about yp?  There's
a ticket in Bugzilla that I'm concerned about.

 -Scott