NIS+ YP compat mode problem

[Bruce Reed]

I have an NIS+ server that runs in compatibility mode to support other OS's
that strictly use NIS, specifically HP-UX. This was working fine for quite
some time until I moved my master NIS+ server to a new Solaris server (both
UltraSparcs running 2.5.) While table creation went fine, read access table
permissions for nobody are set, and I run rpc.nisd in compat mode (-Y), my
HP-UX machines can no longer ypbind to the NIS+ server. Or at least, they
fail to bind when trolling for a server. If I use -ypsetme on HP ypbind and
ypset the server it does work, though a reboot of the server will hang the
NIS hosts. I really want to avoid using ypset, but can't figure out why the
server won't answer ypbind queries. It's really weird, because ypinfo shows
that ypserv is listening for version 1 requests.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? The first server that ran
successfully was setup exactly the same as the second, but obviously
something is different.

Thanks,

--Bruce

[Mario Klebsch]

"Bruce Reed" <br...@intrinsa.com> writes:

>Has anyone else experienced this problem? The first server that ran
>successfully was setup exactly the same as the second, but obviously
>something is different.

Have you evber snoop'ed the YP traffic between the Solaris server and
the HP-UX client machines? Watching the communication on the network
often was very helpfull for me.

73, Mario
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Institut fuer Robotik und Prozessinformatik der TU Braunschweig
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[Bruce Reed]

Mario Klebsch <m...@rob.cs.tu-bs.de> wrote in article
<mkl.85...@rob.cs.tu-bs.de>...

> Have you evber snoop'ed the YP traffic between the Solaris server and
> the HP-UX client machines? Watching the communication on the network
> often was very helpfull for me.

Yes, I have. I see the ypbind queries, but the NIS+ servers do not reply.
Rpcinfo claims they are listening though.

--Bruce