Stephen Hurd wrote:
> Well, I decided to fire up my little IIci again and
fiddle with it
> some more. Got autobooting working, rlogin going, NFS
mounts mounted,
> and decided it was time to join the NIS domain I use at
home.
>
> Set the domainname and frobbed /etc/nsswitch.conf as
normal then ran
> ``ypbind -broadcast''
> At this point, it hung like as though it couldn't
contact a server.
> So, after digging through the manpage some more, I
created
> /var/yp/binding/<mydomain>.ypservers with a singe
line containing the
> name of my NIS server.
> Stopped using -broadcast. Still hung.
> Went back to nsswitch.conf and discovered to my chagrin
that I put nis
> first *blush* fixed that and changed the .ypservers
file to contain
> the IP instead of the host.
> Still hung.
>
> Well, maybe it can't connect to that server then... so
I tried to ping
> it. No go. No packets sent no matter how long you
wait... which
> struck me as odd, so I tried pinging localhost with the
same results.
>
> So, do I have one or two problems here?
And the problem was the date! The date was set in 1904
which, of
course, blew up anything attempting to be time-sensitive.
Synchronizing
the date on startup and running ntp and no more problems of
this sort.
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