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Hi,

I'm trying to setup a NIS server on a Enterprise 450 unter Solaris 2.6 HW:5/98.
The situation is:

1. the machine is a secondary name server
2. there is also a NIS domain (served by non-SUN machine)
3. the machine is *not* configured for this NIS domain (instead I would
   setup this machine as a new master NIS server for a different domain)
4. to setup this machine as a master NIS server for a new NIS domain was
   fine and works very well
5. NIS domain name is *completely* different from the real DNS domain name

BUT

now I can't boot the machine anymore (only in single-user mode). The machine
hangs after starting the NIS daemons (incl. yppasswd etc.). I figured out,
that the next command (ifconfig on all interfaces to setup netmasks) doesn't
work. I don't know what's happen - there are no erros, warnings in log files
or something like this. I suppose, the machine is waiting for something ... ?
NIS seems to be started but the command /usr/sbin/ifconfig -auD netmasks +
broadcast + doesn't work (or can't get the information from the NIS maps?)...
Name service DNS will be started after NIS...

Does anybody have an idea what's going on there?

BTW: would it be better to use NIS+ in compatib. mode instead of NIS (in my
     environment there are only 5 SUN machine and 10 other which does not
     support NIS+)

Thank you for any help.

Martin

otherwise ypwhich always failed. the yp patch ('can get request before ..')
didn't help either.

to debug, edit 'ypstart' and remove the output redirections after
the various yp* commands to see if ypwhich succeeds.

hth, mp.
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