setting up NIS for first time

I'm making my first attempt at configuring my RH9.x workstation as a NIS
server. verything looks good but I have one outstanding issue. Its with
the output of the rpcinfo command.


[lnx03]# rpcinfo -u localhost ypserv
rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
program 100004 version 1 is not available
rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
program 100004 version 2 is not available
[lnx03]#


But when I execute the following:

[lnx03]# rpcinfo -u lnx03 ypserv
program 100004 version 1 ready and waiting
program 100004 version 2 ready and waiting
[lnx03]#

Should it matter that the rpcinfo against the localhost fails knowing that
my NIS server is "lnx03"?

--
d

nusr wrote:
> I'm making my first attempt at configuring my RH9.x workstation as a NIS
> server. verything looks good but I have one outstanding issue. Its with
> the output of the rpcinfo command.
>
>
> [lnx03]# rpcinfo -u localhost ypserv
> rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
> program 100004 version 1 is not available
> rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
> program 100004 version 2 is not available
> [lnx03]#
>
>
> But when I execute the following:
>
> [lnx03]# rpcinfo -u lnx03 ypserv
> program 100004 version 1 ready and waiting
> program 100004 version 2 ready and waiting
> [lnx03]#
>
> Should it matter that the rpcinfo against the localhost fails knowing that
> my NIS server is "lnx03"?
>

NO,

this is because the server listens on the ip your ethernet card has. And
this is not 127.0.0.1 what localhost is.
It makes no sense to use the NIS for the localmachine who has all
information that can requested via NIS.

BR

Hans-Juergen Lange

Thanks for the answer.