On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:19:18AM +0100, real-men-dont-cl...@gmx.net wrote: > Hello everybody, > > we spend some time last night to bring up the NIS service on an OI 151a7 > installation. We had severe difficulties to connect the slave servers and > ended up snooping the interface.... > > To make a long story short, the service is configured to only listen locally > (strange for a RemoteProcedureCall service, isn't it) > > The solution was to adjust the service manifest of network/rpc/bind > accordingly: > > change > > <propval name='local_only' type='boolean' value='true'/> > > to > > <propval name='local_only' type='boolean' value='false'/> > > > Perhaps the default setting should be changed.....
Hi, I'd say the NIS service should do something similar as the nlockmgr does: http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/cmd/fs.d/nfs/svc/nlockmgr I think the local_only is set to true by default because "secure by default" approach. HTH. -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: mar...@telka.sk | | homepage: http://telka.sk/ | | jabber: mar...@jabber.sk | +-------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
