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- From: drears@pica.army.mil (Dennis G Rears <drears>)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Splitting an NIS domain across a router.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.145044.25312@pica.army.mil>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 14:50:44 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.145450.24666@uunet.uu.net!mercomp>
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- In article <1992Aug31.145450.24666@uunet.uu.net!mercomp> 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? Would it be best
- >to have two masters or what? If I had two masters, how should I keep
- >them in sync? Any one have a similar setup?
-
- I have one NIS domain across 12 subnets with no problem. You only
- only want 1 master server. You will want at least 2 slave servers on
- each subnet. The only problem you will have is creating the the first
- slave server on the subnet without the master server to do this do the
- following:
-
- o Boot the slaver-server-to-be in single user mode.
- o mv /etc/ypbind /etc/ypbind.dis
- o go to multi user mode
- o cd /usr/etc/yp
- o execute ypbind -ypset
- o ./ypset IP_address_of master_server
- o ypinit -s IP_address_of master_server
-
- Works for me all the time.
-
- Dennis
-