Re: argh, NIS!

[miquels@drinkel.cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.93.960925004829.1985A-100000@vindictive.possum.com>,
Patrick J. Edwards <edwards@vindictive.possum.com> wrote:
>	NIS is giving me a big headache. I want to run it though... so here
>is the rror it keeps coming up with:
>
>$ yppasswd
>YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain possum.com
>yppasswd: can't find the master ypserver: Can't bind to server which serves
>this domain

Perhaps you have setup your ethernet / localhost interfaces wrong? NIS
depends on broadcasts.. If the broadcast address is wrong, it will not
work. Check /etc/init.d/network.

Mike.
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