jamison@yuma.acns.colostate.edu (Jamie Gulden) (01/22/91)
I am having a problem with yp (NIS) and was hoping someone could
help out.
PROBLEM: When a 4D/25 is bound to a yp server that goes down it won't
rebind to a different server.
INFO: 4D/25TG w/ IRIX 3.3.1 and NSF 3.3
3 sun servers running SunOS 4.1.1
WHAT HAPPENS: The PI is running ypbind and ypwhich returns the hostname
of one of the servers. The PI will bind to any of the three servers
at boot depending on which responds first. If that server goes down
the PI will start printing the following message:
yp server not responding for domain ".VIS.ColoState.EDU"; still trying (v2)
Typing ypwhich returns that the domain is not bound. The only way
I have been able to get it to rebind to a different server is to
reboot the system.
WHAT I HAVE TRIED: Looking in the IRIS NFS manual under debugging a
yp {client|server} the exact error message is given but all of the
suggestions it gives are allready being done (ypserv is running on
all machines and none of the machines or the network are overworked,
the domain name is correct on all machines, other machines are
getting services off of the other two servers just fine). Our suns
work fine and will rebind when needed to a different server. Also
ypset won't let me set the server.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks apriori, Jamie.
arc@kaibab.wpd.sgi.com (Andrew Cherenson) (01/26/91)
In article <12194@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> jamison@yuma.acns.colostate.edu (Jamie Gulden) writes: > > I am having a problem with yp (NIS) and was hoping someone could >help out. > > PROBLEM: When a 4D/25 is bound to a yp server that goes down it won't > rebind to a different server. > > INFO: 4D/25TG w/ IRIX 3.3.1 and NSF 3.3 > 3 sun servers running SunOS 4.1.1 > > WHAT HAPPENS: The PI is running ypbind and ypwhich returns the hostname > of one of the servers. The PI will bind to any of the three servers > at boot depending on which responds first. If that server goes down > the PI will start printing the following message: > >yp server not responding for domain ".VIS.ColoState.EDU"; still trying (v2) > > Typing ypwhich returns that the domain is not bound. The only way > I have been able to get it to rebind to a different server is to > reboot the system. > > WHAT I HAVE TRIED: Looking in the IRIS NFS manual under debugging a > yp {client|server} the exact error message is given but all of the > suggestions it gives are allready being done (ypserv is running on > all machines and none of the machines or the network are overworked, > the domain name is correct on all machines, other machines are > getting services off of the other two servers just fine). Our suns > work fine and will rebind when needed to a different server. Also > ypset won't let me set the server. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks apriori, Jamie. > Jamie determined that the PI was using the Internet standard "1-style" broadcast IP address and the Suns were using the retrograde "0-style" address. See Section 8.3.4 in the Network Communications Guide for details.