urgent nis+ help requested as deadline is near

[Scott Croft]

I would check 2 things first before doing what was previously suggested.
Is your time sync'd up within 30 seconds of the NIS+ server?
Are you running keyserv?

Scott


On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 16:00, Aaron Cheek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Well, I don't know what the problem is exactly, but
> according to the error message (Couldn't connect to
> rpc.nisd on host.lab.mydomain.edu (x.x.x.x)) I would
> say that it might be a connectivity problem.
> 
> This is how I would debug your situation:
> 
> First, determine what the nisd port is in your NIS+
> server. To do so, run rpcinfo -p | grep nisd in it.
> 
> Then, run a sniffer in the linux client, while doing
> the nisinit -c operation:
> 
> tcpdump -n host <NIS+_server_IP_address>
> 
> (You can do it also in the NIS+ server side with snoop
> if you feel more comfortable with it).
> 
> See if the linux client and the NIS+ server are
> exchanging data through the nisd ports you determined
> above.
> 
> Notice that before exchanging NIS+ data, the linux
> client must find out what the nisd port is in the NIS+
> server, so it must first contact the portmapper on the
> NIS+ server (which is running on port 111) to ask for
> this information.
> 
> So, in summary, you should see traffic to destination
> NIS+ server port 111, followed by traffic to the NIS+
> server nisd port.
> 
> One thing that comes up to my mind is that something
> might be blocking access to port 111 or the nisd port
> in the server (tcpwrappers, firewall, etc.).
> 
> If this goes well, we should look in other direction.
> Report your findings...
> 
> Aaron
> 
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Scott Croft <secroft at micron.com>