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/sunmanagersReceived on Sun Mar 19 20:14:51 2006
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Thu Mar 03 2016 - 06:43:56 EST