Hi can you give me some more information? I'm working alot with NIS (although mostly on SUN), so maybe I can help. are all your hosts Debian?, can you send me a copy off your nsswitch.conf? did you try putting files after nis in nsswitch.conf? have you tries to put a listener to see if your host tries to go out to the correct port? etc...
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 05:56, Neal Lippman wrote: > I'm trying to sort out a strange problem with nis - or at least, I think > it's with nis. I haven't been able to find answers, including with an > earlier post hear, so I was wondering if I could locate, perhaps, > someone knowledgeable in the internal workings of nis, but I don't know > how to go about that. Anyone with suggestions? > > The problem I have is strange. I use nis for lookups for passwd, groups, > hosts, etc, so that I can keep a central database on one server in my > home LAN and not have to duplicate accounts, etc. > > The problem is with /etc/services. When I set up nsswitch.conf to use > nis for servers, some commands no longer work properly. For instance, > apt-get. If I try apt-get update or apt-get upgrade, they fail, stating > that connections to my various apt sources are refused. However, when I > edit nsswitch.conf so that servers uses the local file instead of nis, > all works fine. I've tried ltrace'ing and strace'ing apt-get to see if I > can spot where the problem lies, unsuccessfully. The same thing happens > if I try to telnet to a specific port (eg telnet mail.foo.bar pop3), but > only when services is being delivered via nis. > > I'm at a loss to figure out why this is the case. A test program to use > getservicebyname works identically regardless of whether services is > handled by nis or not. > > Any thoughts? > > NL > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bye -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
