Disarray0019
Technical User
Client is running AIX 4.1.5, and having NIS issues. According to them, there were no changes to the system, all they did was update the hosts table on the NIS master, and now pushing out any NIS updates takes forever. The error messages when pushing out the changes make it sound as though the changes are not pushed out, but they are. Basically, when a make is run, it logs the "updated $map", and just sits there. After roughly 15 minutes (that's not an exageration), it logs the following message:
"No response from ypxfr on $nis_slave_server". Once it logs that message, that is when the nis table is updated, and it then moves on to the next slave in the ypservers list.
I have tried reconfiguring the master as well as 90% of the slave servers, all with no change. The problem appears to lie in the communication between yppush on the master and ypserv on the slaves. I can manually pull the maps at any slave without any problems, the trouble only occurs when the yppush from the master is invoked. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I gather, yppush is invoked on the master, which communcates with the ypserv process on the slave. The ypserv process is what calls ypxfr to contact the master, and retreive a copy of the maps. If so, then it does seem as though the problem is between yppush (master) and ypserv (slave). Has anyone else had this problem before, or heard of it. One other thing I did try, was to rcp the entire /var/yp/$domain directory to each slave server, but still the make hangs for about 15 minutes, no matter what maps I am trying to push out. Thanks for any help or advice.
"No response from ypxfr on $nis_slave_server". Once it logs that message, that is when the nis table is updated, and it then moves on to the next slave in the ypservers list.
I have tried reconfiguring the master as well as 90% of the slave servers, all with no change. The problem appears to lie in the communication between yppush on the master and ypserv on the slaves. I can manually pull the maps at any slave without any problems, the trouble only occurs when the yppush from the master is invoked. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I gather, yppush is invoked on the master, which communcates with the ypserv process on the slave. The ypserv process is what calls ypxfr to contact the master, and retreive a copy of the maps. If so, then it does seem as though the problem is between yppush (master) and ypserv (slave). Has anyone else had this problem before, or heard of it. One other thing I did try, was to rcp the entire /var/yp/$domain directory to each slave server, but still the make hangs for about 15 minutes, no matter what maps I am trying to push out. Thanks for any help or advice.