very strange NIS issues

From: Ilya Birman (ilya.birman@abnamro.com)
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 16:22:19 EDT


Folks,

Moved some old slave server form old NIS domain "OLD" to new NIS domain
"NEW" the usual way ( modified /etc/defaultdomain, ypinit -c, ypstart)
All maps are read successfully, everything work fine

1. When master server for Domain "OLD" was turned off some clients would
receive messages

 ypbind[29507]: [ID 337329 daemon.error] NIS server not responding for
domain "OLD"; still trying

I thought it was very puzzling. tried the YPINIT again, caching demon
restart, etc. No luck.

2.Next deleted the /var/yp/bindings/"old" directory

Started getting the following messages:

May 11 15:12:43 usess200ess30 ypbind[28175]: service not installed, use
/usr/sbin/ypinit -c

3. The only way to get rid of all odd messages was to change

/var/yp/bindings/"old"/ypserver file to point to master server for
"NEW" NIS domain.

Does anyone knows how to successfully "UN INSTALL" the old domain from
theses slaves.
It only occurs on 20% of the machines.

Will summarize

-- 
Ilya Birman
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