Re: NIS error

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On 16:48 12 Nov 2003, Philip Mores <philip.mores@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| I setup NIS server, the only NIS server. When I tried connecting the
| workstation, this error occurred during startup of the workstation:
| Listening for an NIS domain server ..... [FAILED]. I logged to the
| workstation as root and tried restarting the ypbind service but this error
| appeared: ypbind failed. The error was: Binding to the NIS domain: [OK]
| Listening for an NIS domain server [FAILED].

Are the client and server on the same subnet? Listening mode is done with
broadcasts, which require the server to be on the same net. Alternatively
you can specify a particular server when you set it up. The Other
possibility is that you have mistyped the NIS domain name.

Cheers,
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