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Re: NIS problem



Thanks Mike.  It was an iptables problem.

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.43.0210031044500.28799-100000@loligo.mote.org>,
> Don Hayward  <don@pomobuli.net> wrote:
> >I should have been more clear about rpcinfo ---
> >rpcinfo -p client from the client fails
>
> Fails how?
>
> >rpcinfo -p client from the server works but shows only portmapper and
> >nlockmgr
> >
> >rpcinfo -p server from the client works
> >rpcinfo -p server from the server works
>
> Hmm, the server is OK, and the server can see RPC on the client
>
> >Again, the error is when I try to run ypbind on the client:
> >Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to send; errno = Operation not permitted
> >Unable to register (YPBINDPROG, YPBINDVERS, udp).
>
> That is the client trying to register the ypbind service with
> the local portmapper. It fails, and so so rpcinfo -p. Because
> it fails with 'Operation not permitted' I'd say there's a
> 95% chance there's an ipchains or iptables rule installed
> that blocks something
>
> Try 'iptables -L' and/or 'ipchains -L'
>
> >The is no firewall in the system.  I rebuilt the kernel without freeswan,
> >but no change.  I've been exploring some ipv6 functionality.  I wonder if
> >that introduced some problem with portmap.
>
> Possible. It is a local configuration problem, and it doesn't
> have anything to do with NIS, it just shows up when trying to use NIS
>
> Mike.
>
>
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