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- From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
- Subject: Re: DNS/NIS Mail Fiasco
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- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- References: <1993Jan2.161122.1@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 02:09:18 GMT
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- In <1993Jan2.161122.1@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu> sasurguine@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu writes:
-
- [He enabled B=-b in /var/yp/Makefile]
- >My first question is does this entry need to be made on the Slave server as
- >well? This does not make sense to me: After all all maps are made on the
- >Master Server right?
-
- Right. There should not even be a Makefile on the slaves.
-
- >My Next question concerns what has inspired me to post :-)
-
- [Lots of sendmail problems]
-
- >nslookup runs fine on all machines ...
-
- That would indicate that you have /etc/resolv.conf set up correctly on
- the NIS servers.
-
- >This is my first exposure to really setting up DNS so I am a little confused!!
-
- You can check that NIS is doing DNS lookups by trying something
- like ``ypmatch uunet.uu.net hosts'', where uunet.uu.net should not
- be in your hosts map.
- --
- -Gary Mills- -Networking Group- -U of M Computer Services-
-