Subject: Re: ypclient
To: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 01/13/1998 21:45:10
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:22:11 -0800 (PST)
Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu> wrote:
> We've set the domain name to match the domain name of the server (norge).
> We made a file /var/yp/binding/norge.ypservers and fed it the correct IP
> address. Then we ran ypbind.
>
> ypbind just sits there. ypcat seems to hang (I kill it after about 10
> seconds).
>
> What did we do wrong?
...more like "What did Ultrix do wrong?" I seem to recall that Ultrix
YP was not interoperable with just about everyone else's...
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