SUMMARY:yp and boot server problem on SunOS 4.1.4

From: Ulla Fischer (ulla@dmi.min.dk)
Date: Thu Mar 02 1995 - 10:21:53 CST


Dear managers,

Tue Feb 14 I wrote about two problems: malfunctioning bootserver and
problems with my ypservice. My original posting is included below.

Thanks to
Ray Brownrigg <Ray.Brownrigg@isor.vuw.ac.nz>
sandi@cs.uct.ac.za

About the bootserver: It turned out, that the clients used the wrong
ip-adress of the server. Fixing that, solved the problem.

About yp service: I didn't succeed on making ge11 (Solaris 2.3) a yp
client of ge19 (SunOS 4.1.4). Instead I put it into another yp domain
served by a SunOS 4.1.2. This satisfies me, because I'm rearranging my
yp domains right now.

Ray Brownrigg suggests:

Ray> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 20:27:17 +1300
Ray> From: Ray Brownrigg <Ray.Brownrigg@isor.vuw.ac.nz>
Ray> To: ulla@dmi.min.dk
Ray> Subject: Re: yp and boot server problem on SunOS 4.1.4
Ray>
Ray> I have already solved this problem once today!. In this case it was that
Ray> the Solaris 2.3 system did not have an /etc/resolv.conf file defined.
Ray> (It also happened to be binding through a router, and seemed to need
Ray> ypset also.)
Ray>
Ray> Apparently in SunOS 4.1.4 the /var/yp/securenets file is mandatory, and
Ray> so presumably other security issues have been tightened up also.

I did have a /etc/resolv.conf, and it didn't help to create
/var/yp/securenets.

Sandi Donno suggests:

Sandi> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 95 09:03 SAT
Sandi> From: root@cs.uct.ac.za (Superuser)
Sandi> To: ulla@dmi.min.dk
Sandi> Subject: Re: yp and boot server problem on SunOS 4.1.4
Sandi>
Sandi> I suspect I am having the same problem as you, but with one of the
Sandi> patches to 4.1.3_U1 - the shared library patch (101558). When this
Sandi> patch is installed our Solaris 2.3 machines will not bind to the
Sandi> 4.1.3_U1 machines, and when removed they will. I guess this bug got
Sandi> carried over to 4.1.4!

Yours,

Ulla Fischer
Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut Email: ulla@dmi.min.dk
Edb-afdelingen Phone: + 45 39 15 75 00
Lyngbyvej 100 Phone: + 45 39 15 75 54
2100 Koebenhavn 0 Fax: + 45 39 15 75 98
Denmark

---- original mail ----

I have installed SunOS 4.1.4 on a Sparc IPC, and have now problems
with the ypserver and bootserver.

The ypserver can serve SunOS 4.1.x machines and Solaris 2.2 machines,
but not Solaris 2.3 machines. On those machines, I get

Feb 10 17:34:41 hobbes ypbind[14180]: NIS server not responding for
domain "fa.dmi.min.dk"; still trying

If I try to bind to the server with ypset from a Solaris 2.3 client (I
have started ypbind with -ypsetme), I get the following:

Feb 11 20:32:54 hobbes ypbind[14321]: unable to register (YPBINDPROG, YPBINDVERS_2)

I have with rpcinfo checked, that the ypserver is able to talk this
program in this version.

hobbes% rpcinfo -u ge19 ypbind 1
program 100007 version 1 ready and waiting
hobbes% rpcinfo -u ge19 ypbind 2
program 100007 version 2 ready and waiting
hobbes% rpcinfo -t ge19 ypbind 1
program 100007 version 1 ready and waiting
hobbes% rpcinfo -t ge19 ypbind 2
program 100007 version 2 ready and waiting

If I do the same thing on a Solaris 2.2 machine, I get the following
message in the console:

pratt% Feb 13 09:37:05 pratt ypbind[10491]: Set domain request from <
\000\000 : setting server for domain fa.dmi.min.dk to ge19

And the it binds.

If I run etherfind -r -broadcast -dstport sunrpc on the ypserver ge19,
I can't see any calls from neither pratt nor hobbes.

The other problem I got with the 4.1.4 server machine is, that it
won't allow a ELC client nfs mount all the necessary files. I get the
following message:

dump on ge19:/export/swap/ge20 fstype nfs size 16372K
mount: ge19:/export/exec/sun4.sunos.4.1.4 server not responding: RPC: Port
mapper failure - RPC: Timed out
mount retrying
   /usr

The client can sucessfully mount /export/root and
/export/swap. ge19:/export/exec is exported:

ge19# exportfs
/usr
/usr/local
/data
/export/share
/export/exec
/export/home
/export/root/ge20 -access=ge20,root=ge20
/export/swap/ge20 -access=ge20,root=ge20

Doen anyone have a hint of how to solve these problems?

Yours

-- 
Ulla Fischer
Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut      Email: ulla@dmi.min.dk
Edb-afdelingen                        Phone: + 45 39 15 75 00 
Lyngbyvej 100                         Phone: + 45 39 15 75 54
2100 Koebenhavn 0                     Fax:   + 45 39 15 75 98
Denmark



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