sporadic NIS+ server

2007-12-25 11:59:00

Original query:

> We have been having problems this week with our NIS+ server. It has been

> sporadic ever since Monday night of this week. Our users have been

> un-able to login to any of the workstations, except for short periods of

> time (about 15 minutes).

> I was told by Sun that this might be a load problem, but that seems

> improbable: we've been running with this setup all semester. It wasn't

> until this week (when most students are gone) that we began experiencing

> any problems.

Thanks to:

Suggestions:

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Use snoop to look at NIS+ traffic and login to a machine. I think that you

may have a NIS+ replica giving bogus information to your NIS+ clients.

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Check to make sure your system clocks are in sync. NIS+'s

authentication info is time-sensitive.

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Solution:

This problem was evidently caused by several events that happened to

trigger an incompatiblity of some sort between UUCP and NIS+. We

discovered that NIS+ would "disappear" when the xx:11 and xx:41 uucp

cronjobs ran. To solve, we removed the SUNWbnuu and SUNWbnur packages

from all machines where it was not needed. The problem disappeared as

quickly as it had appeared.

Thanks for the help.

Mark `Hex' Hershberger `\< New Orleans, LA (

How vigilant we are! determined not to live by faith if we can

avoid it; all the day long on the alert, at night we unwillingly

say our prayers and commit ourselves to uncertainties.

-- Thoreau

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