fmbutt@uunet.uu.net (Farooq Butt) (02/03/90)
I have a couple of problems on my hands. I am trying to run both Sun Yellow Pages and BIND (I believe version 4.8.1). With much help, I got a functional nameserver up the Sun and nslookup etc. works great. Here's the rub: I thought all I had to do was to start up ypserv with the "-i" (more on that later) flag and to propagate the hosts.byname and the hosts.byaddr YP maps with the "-b" flag on makedbm. I did that. My yp topology is one master server (called "lectroid"), many clients and one slave server (called "blublaze"). Issue 1: When I do a "ypcat ypservers" command, I get two carriage returns. Period. No hostnames. No nothing. This has only started happening since I have run DNS. What's up ? Issue 2: Here's the transcript of a session: Script started on Sat Jan 27 13:08:49 1990 blublaze# hostname blublaze blublaze# ypwhich blublaze-gw.sw.stratus.com blublaze# ypxfr -f -h lectroid hosts.byname blublaze# ypxfr -f -h lectroid hosts.byaddr ypxfr(get_misc_recs) RPC call to lectroid failed: RPC: Timed out blublaze# script done on Sat Jan 27 13:10:17 1990 How come the first "ypxfr" call works and the second bombs out ? What does the RPC error message refer to ? Issue 3: I can never seem to get "ypset" to work anymore. I keep getting told that I cannot send some message to ypbind on the master server. What's going on ? This problem is particularly bad since I can never seem to dynamically change YP servers!!!!! Issue 4: I keep thinking that I have missed some crucial step here. Is this true or am I slowly going mad? Issue 5: Can YP/BIND even live together or is this a fantasy ? Issue 6: Where in the lord's name is the "-i" flag on ypserv documented ? The Sun man pages never talk about *any* flags to either ypbind OR ypserv..... Issue 7: Could someone puuuuleeeze send me a check list for doing this if one exists. Currently my system resembles the folowing equation: Functional BIND + Functional YP = DISASTER Thanks a lot for your attention. I throw myself at your mercy, Farooq Butt fmbutt@mrbt.sw.stratus.com