[ILUG] wierd NIS problem

[John Allen]

Check the output from
domainname
nisdomainname
hostname

John P . Looney wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:54:40PM +0000, Philip Reynolds mentioned:
> 
>> John P . Looney's [john at antefacto.com] 22 lines of wisdom included:
>> :> NIS on a mandrake 7.2 box is going funny. It works and all, but make
>> :>takes a long time to run. Also;
>> :>
>> :>[root at dogbert yp]# rpcinfo -u localhost ypserv
>> :>rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
>> :>program 100004 version 1 is not available
>> :>rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
>> :>program 100004 version 2 is not available
>> 
>> Stick in your hostname instead of localhost, just to see if that's
>> working, make sure you have your domainname set.
>> Are you using ypserv 1.1 or ypserv1.2 ? Is Everything in
>> /var/yp/Makefile correct?
> 
> 
>  Hmm. That works. Freaky.
> 
> [root at dogbert /root]# cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost
> 172.24.1.101    dogbert.internal.antefacto.com dogbert
> 
> [root at dogbert /root]# rpcinfo -u dogbert ypserv
> program 100004 version 1 ready and waiting
> program 100004 version 2 ready and waiting
> [root at dogbert /root]# rpcinfo -u localhost ypserv
> rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
> program 100004 version 1 is not available
> rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
> program 100004 version 2 is not available
> 
>  WTF ?
> 
> Kate
>