Bug#56817: nis: Frequent "Remote system" and YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN errors

[ca...@enhanced.com]

Package: nis
Version: 3.5-2

Greetings! We have a 10Mbit coax lan with 8 machines and 2 nis servers.
Since upgrading to this version, we receive around 5-10 yp errors a day
at random times. While we used to rarely encounter the

YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound

error in the past, we've never seen the following before with earlier
nis versions:

do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Remote system error

Neither ypbind nor ypserv indicate anything in the syslog. I'm running
ypserv with -d now on both servers, and will forward any relevant results.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.1
Kernel Version: Linux intech19 2.2.12-tcpfix #1 SMP Mon Nov 1 14:14:41 EST 1999 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages nis depends on:
ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries
ii libgdbmg1 1.7.3-25 GNU dbm database routines (runtime version).
ii netbase 3.11-1.2 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries
ii make 3.77-4 The GNU version of the "make" utility.

--- Begin /etc/ypserv.securenets (modified conffile)
#
#
#
255.0.0.0 127.0.0.0
255.255.255.0 192.168.2.0

--- End /etc/ypserv.securenets

--- Begin /etc/yp.conf (modified conffile)
#
#
#
ypserver 192.168.2.5
ypserver 192.168.2.9
ypserver 192.168.2.12

--- End /etc/yp.conf

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[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

reassign 56817 libc6
thanks

In article <cistron.E12F...@intech19.enhanced.com>,
<ca...@enhanced.com> wrote:
>Package: nis
>Version: 3.5-2

The NIS package doesn't provide the client NIS services - it's
libc6 that has the client functions integrated.

>Greetings! We have a 10Mbit coax lan with 8 machines and 2 nis servers.
>Since upgrading to this version, we receive around 5-10 yp errors a day
>at random times. While we used to rarely encounter the
>
>YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound
>
>error in the past, we've never seen the following before with earlier
>nis versions:
>
>do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Remote system error
>
>Neither ypbind nor ypserv indicate anything in the syslog. I'm running
>ypserv with -d now on both servers, and will forward any relevant results.

I bet you upgraded libc6 as well.

Besides, all the software you are running is ancient. I know it's
from the most recent "stable" release, but well, that was a long
time ago alas. I really recommend you upgrade to potato. The NIS client
functions in libc6 have seen a lot of development since glibc 2.0.7

I'm reassigning this bug to libc6

Mike.
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