On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 05:56:46PM -0500, Brian Stark wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, WF NiX (tronik) wrote:
> 
> > I had the same problem when i first installed a fresh 1.5_ALPHA snapshot,
> > and it took me about aminute to figure out what was going on. 
> > After further investigation i found that passwd was now looking for
> > 'yppasswd' or some other sort of configuration file, (i took a hunch and
> > did 'touch /etc/passwd.conf' and i saw some results, such as now when i
> > typed passwd without parameters i got back 'user@DOMAIN.TLD's password'
> 
> 
> Yeah, this is what I am seeing now too...
> 
>   callisto:root# passwd root
>   root@NIANGUA.NET's Password:
>   ^C
>   callisto:root# 
> 
> The /etc/nsswitch.conf file on 1.5_ALPHA is the same as on 1.4Z, which
> is: $NetBSD: nsswitch.conf,v 1.5 1999/10/24 12:36:52 lukem Exp $.

You can get around it by setting sysctl net.inet.icmp.errratelimit to 0.

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