The reason I think so is the mod in the nsswitch.conf file that got
stuff working on the Solaris platform ie: changing the hosts line to
read:
hosts: nis dns [NOTFOUND=return] files
as opposed to the original:
hosts: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
I have been racking my brains for any changes that I might have made
around the time that this all stopped working, but I can think of nary
a one - hence the process of trying to figure out what is broken.
I've had a few kind souls make suggestions, but none of them have
proven to be the solution.
The suggestions were:
- check ypbind on the clients and make sure it is running
it is.
- patch the SunOs resolver libraries
don't think this is the problem since it seems to be the NIS
forwarding to DNS that is broken. I think the libresolv patches
are for non-NIS clients be able to directly resolve via DNS -
corrections ?
- check for ypserv running with a -d
it is
- check for out of date NIS server.
did that - reinitialized maps on the server and pushed to the
secondaries just to make sure.
anyone else ? I'm getting really desparate.
Thu May 22 10:30:57 EDT 1997
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Scott's second Law:
When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found
to have been wrong in the first place.
Corollary:
After the correction has been found in error, it will be
impossible to fit the original quantity back into the
equation.