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Configuring the Network Information Service (NIS)

Domain name problems

If the domain name is not set properly, network utilities will hang waiting for ypbind to bind to an invalid domain.

To check if the NIS domain name is set, use the domainname command:

domainname

This should display the NIS domain name. If the domain name is missing or incorrect, check the YPDOMAIN variable in /etc/nis to make sure it is set to the correct domain.

To check if NIS is bound to the correct server, use the ypwhich command:

ypwhich

This should return the name of the NIS server. If this hangs or fails, the local machine is unable to bind to the remote NIS server. Use the rpcinfo command to check whether the ypbind program is running on the local machine:

rpcinfo -u server_name ypbind


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