From: Gary Lopez (gary@catapult.com)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2006 - 20:14:19 EST
Everyone thanks for your response. I wrote the question in haste and did
not get the answers I needed because the question was written
incorrectly. Thanks to Darren Dunham for being kind enough to exchange
e-mails with me to answer what I *really* needed to know..
Here is what I wrote originally ..
> Just a quick question. Is it possible to have 2 NIS servers or can you
> only bind to one? Basically I have a primary NIS server in California
> and a secondary in Chicago. Can I make the California a primary and
> Chicago a secondary?
Here is what I revised to Darren with his responses..
> I wrote the question in haste and realize only in my mind did it make sense.
>> I basically have 2 NIS servers and want to know can I bind to both (i.e.
>> one as a primary or one as a slave) or will NIS only allow me to bind to
>> only one?
So a client only "binds" to one at a time, but you can specify several
and it will pick one. If it becomes unavailable it will try the others.
> Sorta like failover, if one NIS server is unavailable will it go look at
>> another?
Yep.
When you set up the client with 'ypinit -c', you can specify one or more
servers. It will bind to one, but will try the others if that fails.
-- Gary D Lopez Unix Systems Administrator Catapult Communications 160 S Whisman Rd Mountain View, CA 94041 Ph (650) 314-1029 Fax (650) 960-1029 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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