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From: martti.kuparinen@era-t.ericsson.se (Martti Kuparinen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ypbind hangs
Date: 3 Apr 1997 07:31:59 GMT
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Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> wrote:
> The problem is that your router is not forwarding the broadcasts from
> ypbind to the NIS+ server.

Ok, maybe I was not clear enough in my previous article. Everything is
working perfectly _until_ the router is rebooted. So obviously the router
is configured correctly to forward the broadcasts...

But the question remains: why the client's ypbind hangs after _temporarily_
losing connection to the NIS server?

> setting the 'ypsetflags' knob so that it forces a ypset to the server
> after ypbind has been launched (and add -ypsetme to the ypbind flags).

Yes, we are already using these.

/Martti