[tech] Odd NIS outage

[David Manchester]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:14:44PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> We just had a strange NIS problem around 4pm. "id" was hanging, and
> ssh'ing to mooneye, for example, resulted in "You don't exist, go
> away!".
> 
> I restarted /sbin/init.d/nis on morwong and it recovered. If it happens
> again we should try to track it down...

Sounds co-incidental with the OSF-USR licenses expiring...

d.
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