Re: Multisubnet NIS slave options

[William LeFebvre <wnl@groupsys.com>]

Matthew Crosby wrote:


> This is true, but one little caveat:  We have found, at least under Solaris,
> that Solaris versions prior to 8 have problems with failing over with
> explicitly specified ypservers.  In that, they take a looong time (up to
> 5 minutes when I last did benchmarks).  Sun has fixed it in 8, and supposedly
> a recent patch of 7 fixes it, but we still have a large 2.5.1 plant.  So,
> much to our distress, (and to the security group's even bigegr disstress :-( ),
> we are still running with broadcast in most cases.
> 
> However, if you can live with the failover issues, this really is the best
> solution.

You used to be able to use adb on the ypbind binary and change the timeout
setting.  Unfortunately the later versions of Solaris all have stripped
ypbind binaries.  Sigh....

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				William LeFebvre
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