[Gllug] problems with ypinit and slave server

[Adam Bower]

Hi all,

I was adding a new machine on a new subnet to become a slave ypserver. 
The machine is currently a client of the server etc. and can ypbind to 
the server sucessfully. Now when I try to run /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -s 
mastershostname it complains:

Can't enumerate maps from mastershostname. Please check that it is running.

All of the other slave ypservers are working happily and are picking up 
updates etc. from the ypmaster. I have checked the securenets file and 
hosts.allow and hosts.deny. I have added the new slave to the ypservers 
file and run Make and the new client can see its name in the map.

Does anyone have any ideas? The Linux Nis documentation is a bit scant 
really, and not really much use when it comes to debugging. I have 
checked all of the versions of ypbind and ypserv etc. in use and 
although some are a little crusty they work ok with the mix of other 
machines with differing versions.

I have also run tcpdump on the master ypserver and the new slave server 
does do some dialog with the server although I havn't investigated this 
further yet.

Thanks
Adam


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