02-16-2005
Hi Far,
If both subnets are connected with a router/gateway it does not matter where NFS is located. You should be able to mount across the router because it is using directed IP packets.
NIS is a different story. You will need to have a presence on each subnet. NIS uses broadcasts to locate the server intially. You can either multi-home your NIS server or create a slave or multiple slave servers on each subnet. Since you have multiple servers in each subnet I suggest you pick a few from each subnet to be a slave. You could even make all of them slaves but that may be overkill.
Hope that helps,
Tony
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
rpc.ypxfrd
RPC.YPXFRD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual RPC.YPXFRD(8)
NAME
rpc.ypxfrd -- NIS map transfer server
SYNOPSIS
rpc.ypxfrd [-p path]
DESCRIPTION
The rpc.ypxfrd utility is used to speed up the distribution of very large NIS maps from NIS master to NIS slave servers. The normal method
for transferring maps involves several steps:
o The master server calls yppush(8) to inform the slave servers to start a transfer.
o The slave servers invoke ypxfr(8), which reads the entire contents of a map from the master server using the yp_all() function.
o The ypxfr(8) program then creates a new map database file by using the db(3) library hash method to store the data that it receives
from the server.
o When all the data has been retrieved, ypxfr(8) moves the new file into place and sends ypserv(8) on the local machine a
YPPROC_CLEAR to tell it to refresh its database handles.
This process can take several minutes when there are very large maps involved. For example: a passwd database with several tens of thousands
of entries can consume several megabytes of disk space, and it can take the db(3) library package a long time to sort and store all the
records in a hash database. Consider also that there are two sets of map files: master.passwd.by{name,uid} and passwd.by{name,uid}.
The rpc.ypxfrd utility speeds up the transfer process by allowing NIS slave servers to simply copy the master server's map files rather than
building their own from scratch. Simply put, rpc.ypxfrd implements an RPC-based file transfer protocol. Transferring even a multi-megabyte
file in this fashion takes only a few seconds compared to the several minutes it would take even a reasonably fast slave server to build a
new map from scratch.
The rpc.ypxfrd utility uses the same access restriction mechanism as ypserv(8). This means that slave servers will only be permitted to
transfer files if the rules in the securenets database permit it (see ypserv(8) for more information on securenets). Furthermore, only slave
servers using reserved ports will be allowed to transfer the master.passwd maps.
OPTIONS
The following option is available:
-p path
This option can be used to override the default path to the location of the NIS map databases. The compiled-in default path is
/var/yp.
FILES
/var/yp/[domainname]/[maps] The NIS maps for a particular NIS domain.
SEE ALSO
yp(8), yppush(8), ypserv(8), ypxfr(8)
AUTHORS
Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>
BUGS
The FreeBSD ypxfrd protocol is not compatible with that used by SunOS. This is unfortunate but unavoidable: Sun's protocol is not freely
available, and even if it were it would probably not be useful since the SunOS NIS v2 implementation uses the original ndbm package for its
map databases whereas the FreeBSD implementation uses Berkeley DB. These two packages use vastly different file formats. Furthermore, ndbm
is byte-order sensitive and not very smart about it, meaning that am ndbm database created on a big endian system cannot be read on a little
endian system.
BSD
June 2, 1996 BSD