Path: usenet.ee.pdx.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!news.tek.com!usenet From: frankm@master.cna.tek.com (Frank 'Scruffy' Miller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Re: Ypbind accross a router Date: 11 Aug 1994 13:55:00 GMT Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Redmond, OR Lines: 26 Message-ID: <32dajk$l5k@marlyn.cna.tek.com> References: <1994Aug11.013433.10635@megatek.com> Reply-To: frankm@master.cna.tek.com NNTP-Posting-Host: solaris.cna.tek.com >In article , >Rodney Garner wrote: >|Can anybody tell me if it is possable to bind accross a router. >|I have one machine in a different subnet. I need to bind it to my >|domain. Is there a workaround? > > Sure. Make it a slave NIS server, and it will bind to itself, but get >the maps from the master whenever they are changed (requires ypinit'ing on >both the new slaver server and the master server, but that is trivial)... > Another solution is to allow udp broadcast across the router for the ypbind to a single YP master or slave in another subnet. I happen to have an one AUX box in a subnet in a sea of PeeCees that needs to ypbind with the UNIX subnets. This worked just fine to allow a udp broadcast for just *one* host. PS ... hopefully the AUX box will go away ;}. --- Frank 'Scruff' Miller | Internet: Frank.Miller@master.cna.tek.com Software Engineer/UNIX Systems | "I went into her cave and returned without Tektronix CNA Division | the ears of a rabbit."