Yellow Pages hates NAMED. Help !!!
Farooq Butt
lectroid!mrbt!fmbutt at uunet.uu.net
Sat Feb 3 05:40:42 AEST 1990
I have a couple of problems on my hands. I am trying to run both Sun
Yellow Pages and BIND (I believe version 4.8.1). With much help, I got a
functional nameserver up the Sun and nslookup etc. works great. Here's
the rub: I thought all I had to do was to start up ypserv with the "-i"
(more on that later) flag and to propagate the hosts.byname and the
hosts.byaddr YP maps with the "-b" flag on makedbm. I did that. My yp
topology is one master server (called "lectroid"), many clients and one
slave server (called "blublaze").
Issue 1: When I do a "ypcat ypservers" command, I get two carriage
returns. Period. No hostnames. No nothing. This has only started
happening since I have run DNS. What's up ?
Issue 2: Here's the transcript of a session:
Script started on Sat Jan 27 13:08:49 1990
blublaze# hostname
blublaze
blublaze# ypwhich
blublaze-gw.sw.stratus.com
blublaze# ypxfr -f -h lectroid hosts.byname
blublaze# ypxfr -f -h lectroid hosts.byaddr
ypxfr(get_misc_recs) RPC call to lectroid failed: RPC: Timed out
blublaze#
script done on Sat Jan 27 13:10:17 1990
How come the first "ypxfr" call works and the second bombs out ? What
does the RPC error message refer to ?
Issue 3: I can never seem to get "ypset" to work anymore. I keep getting
told that I cannot send some message to ypbind on the master server.
What's going on ? This problem is particularly bad since I can never seem
to dynamically change YP servers!!!!!
Issue 4: I keep thinking that I have missed some crucial step here. Is
this true or am I slowly going mad?
Issue 5: Can YP/BIND even live together or is this a fantasy ?
Issue 6: Where in the lord's name is the "-i" flag on ypserv documented ?
The Sun man pages never talk about *any* flags to either ypbind OR
ypserv.....
Issue 7: Could someone puuuuleeeze send me a check list for doing this if
one exists. Currently my system resembles the folowing equation:
Functional BIND + Functional YP = DISASTER
Thanks a lot for your attention.
I throw myself at your mercy,
Farooq Butt
fmbutt at mrbt.sw.stratus.com
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