Do the hosts that are providing this error exist in your hosts map?
ypcat -k hosts | grep <errant host>
Also, I'd check to ensure that your auto_* maps are pointing to valid hosts - if your host attempts to automount a filesystem that has moved or is recorded incorrectly, this type of error may occur.
When searching google et al for hints, strip out most of the error string above and look for this:
Anyone encounter this problem before ? After updating the NIS Map file in the Central copy of the NIS Master Server, i pushed the NIS maps to the client but during the push i gets this error on some of the system. I have no idea what error ' 1831-459 ' is indicating. But the Client machine that ... (1 Reply)
I have copied and verified all the NIS data over from Machine 'A' (Old server) to Machine 'B' (New server), however when I go to start the process of migrating the ‘new maps' back to Machine "A", I get the following error, any ideas?
I type on Machine 'A':
/usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypxfr -h otslw007... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I just took over the admin role from someone and I wanna setup sendmail (just to send mail from the host) however, after I config all the resolv.conf, nssitch.conf, hosts file and when I try to send a mail out, after I punched ctl-D, it returned he following,
"NIS map mail.aliases... (2 Replies)
We have a RedHat 8.0 NIS master, with a RedHat 8.0 NIS Slave.
We also have a small number of SUSE 9.1 and SUSE 10 machines here for evaluation.
However, no matter what i do, the SUSE machines will not talk to the NIS Servers.
If i broadcast for NIS Servers for the specified NIS domain, it... (1 Reply)
I am running NIS on Solaris 8 and I keep getting these errors:
rpc.nisd_resolv: nres_gethostbyaddr: tham.company.com != xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
These happen to others not just one account. And these are over the VPN that we have.
I checked with the network person and they didn't see anything... (0 Replies)
Hi, all.
I have a Solaris client here needs to bind to NIS server in another subnet. Following is the configuration i made on the client,
1) edit /etc/inet/hosts to add an entry of the NIS server -- nserver01
2) execute `domainname` to set local NIS domain to the domain of the NIS server.... (1 Reply)
Hi
When i run the make command for nis i got the following message
/usr/sbin/mknetid: 1831-503 USERNAME groups exceed 32
I tried to use the netgroup map but it doesn't work - Maybe i use it wrongly
Any help please (0 Replies)
I'm creating a scrip for auditing our AIX box's to ensure that they are built according to our system standards. I'm not sure on the logic for checking to see if the NIS and NIS+ services are disabled. any idea's? (2 Replies)
Hello - I have a Solaris machine, which I would like to configure as NIS master. When I run the command /usr/sbin/ypinit -m, I see below output. I am enclosing them in tags.
/usr/sbin/ypinit -m
In order for NIS to operate sucessfully, we have to construct a list of the
NIS servers. Please... (1 Reply)
Hi,
when I do ypwhich -m, I get this error message.
# ypwhich -m |more
Can't find master for map ethers.byaddr. Reason: Internal NIS error
Can't find master for map old. Reason: Internal NIS error
Can't find master for map rpc.bynumber. Reason: Internal NIS error
Can't find master... (2 Replies)
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mknetid
MKNETID(8) NIS Reference Manual MKNETID(8)NAME
mknetid - generate data for netid map
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/yp/mknetid [-q] [-h hosts] [-p passwd] [-g group] [-d domain] [-n netid]
/usr/lib/yp/mknetid --version
DESCRIPTION
mknetid generates the netid.byname NIS map from the contents of the group(5), passwd(5), hosts(5) and netid files. It checks for multiple
entrys of netids and warn for them or filters them out. It is only called by /var/yp/Makefile when rebuilding the NIS map.
OPTIONS -q
This flag turns on 'quiet' mode, don't print a warning message when finding an duplicate netid entry.
-h hosts
The -h flag can be used to specify the use of another hosts file than the default /etc/hosts.
-p passwd
The -p flag can be used to specify the use of another passwd file than the default /etc/passwd.
-g group
The -g flag can be used to specify the use of another group file than the default /etc/group.
-n netid
The -n flag can be used to specify the use of another netid file than the default /etc/netid.
-d domain
The mknetid command uses the system domainname by default. If it is not set or you whish to override it, you must use the -d parameter.
--version
Prints the version number
FILES
/etc/group
groups file
/etc/hosts
hosts database
/etc/netid
netname database
/etc/passwd
password file
SEE ALSO passwd(8), group(5), hosts(5), passwd(5)AUTHOR
mknetid was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.
NIS Reference Manual 09/26/2007 MKNETID(8)