how does one list multiple NIS (failover) servers on the NIS client

in the sun world, you can run "ypinit -c" and list all the NIS servers
that you would like the client to "fail to" when there is an issue. how
do you do this in linux?

i.e. on a sun machine, you can list
localhost (setup as slave)
<primary nis master 1>
<primary nis master 2>
<some other server>
....

when the nis client comes up, it will bind to the first one in the list,
if that eventually dies, it will bind to the next server in the list.. etc.

"Alexander N. Spitzer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> in the sun world, you can run "ypinit -c" and list all the NIS servers
> that you would like the client to "fail to" when there is an issue. how
> do you do this in linux?
>
> i.e. on a sun machine, you can list
> localhost (setup as slave)
> <primary nis master 1>
> <primary nis master 2>
> <some other server>
> ...
>
> when the nis client comes up, it will bind to the first one in the list,
> if that eventually dies, it will bind to the next server in the list..
etc.

man yp.conf



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Alexander N. Spitzer wrote:
> in the sun world, you can run "ypinit -c" and list all the NIS servers
> that you would like the client to "fail to" when there is an issue. how
> do you do this in linux?
>
> i.e. on a sun machine, you can list
> localhost (setup as slave)
> <primary nis master 1>
> <primary nis master 2>
> <some other server>
> ...
>
> when the nis client comes up, it will bind to the first one in the list,
> if that eventually dies, it will bind to the next server in the list.. etc.

anyone else have any insight into this?