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- Subject: Re: Splitting an NIS domain across a router.
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- References: <1992Aug31.145450.24666@uunet.uu.net!mercomp>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:13:29 GMT
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- blu@uunet.uu.net!mercomp (Brian Utterback) writes:
-
- >We are in the process of splitting our current network into two, a
- >production network and a test network. I don't know much about the
- >workinfs of NIS, so bear with me if this is a stupid question, but
- >how do I set up NIS under such a configuration?
-
- The main question is do you want the NIS between these two different,
- bridged by the router, to be the same NIS domain or not?
-
- If so, you should follow the instructions int he Sun "Systems &
- Network Administration" manual.
-
- Have one NIS master, and have one NIS slave server on the other net.
- Regardless, with NIS as it comes from Sun, you will need a NIS server
- on each network because "ypbind" uses a broadcast to find its NIS servers.
-
- Having one server be a NIS slave server insures that it will remain in
- sync with your master server.
-
- If you are going to have two different NIS domains, one for each network,
- then you will need two masters. How you keep data in sync between
- these two domains can be done any number of ways. The simplest is to
- make sure that the files that one uses the other is given also.
-
- > Any one have a similar setup?
-
- Out setup is a little similar.. we have many different subnets and
- a couple of NIS servers. One is the master, and the other NIS servers
- are maintained via 'ypxfrd' to keep in sync.
-
- We have a problem in that our clients are all over the place and we can
- not afford enough servers to have one on each subnet, so we wrote our
- own version of 'ypbind' that uses a file on local disk with a ranking
- for groups of servers and domains instead of relying upon broadcast.
-
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