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Re: NIS on Red Hat...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Wed Nov 13 15:00:43 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:58:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Frederick D. Kass wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could share some information about running NIS
> on Red Hat both as a client and server. In some testing I have done I
> have found Red Hat NIS to be EXTREMELY spammy as a client. It seems to
> send several hundred packets every min that the Red Hat box is turned on
> for no good reason. No other OS on the network running NIS does this.
> The rest only send packets when a yprequest or ypcat is done and do not
> keep constant network chatter like the Red Hat Boxes do.
>
> So much of this Red Hat NIS chatter is going on that a fair amount of Red
> Hat clients (40+) seem to bring the NIS server damn close to a total halt.
I've used Red Hat as both a NIS server and NIS clients on a 16-computer
network w/o problems.
> Have I configured the clients wrong? What can I do to prevent this?
How have you configured NIS? That information would be helpful in actually
solving the problem ;-) Any other background info would be helpful as
well.
-- Elliot
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B: "Who, you?"
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