[tech] Getting mooneye to be a NIS slave

[Anil Sharma]

At 08:51  28/09/00 +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
>I've been reading up on NIS, and how to set mooneye up as a slave to
>morwong, which would obviously help in the "morwong bounces == mail
>sucks" department. It seems fairly straightforward, the only thing
>stumping me atm is how to create a map ypservers, which contains the slave
>servers to morwong. It needs to be the dbm map
>/var/yp/domainname/ypservers.{dir, pag} I have little idea how to create
>this, making a file ypservers in /var/yp/src with mooneye in it and then
>running make in /var/yp doesn't work, probably because there is no target
>to do it. The DEC docs are rather unhelpful in saying how to create the
>map ypserves, does anybody have any ideas?

mooneye is unfirewalled atm isn't it? Making it a slave at the moment is bad.

>I also limited the NIS server to only accept requests from 130.95.13.*

Does NIS allow slaves to talk to slaves?


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