Jason Pyeron wrote:
We just updated our configuratiosn to have multiple NIS servers, when we initiated a test of client failover, we were disapointed.
It seemed that the only way to get a filaover was to /etc/init.d/ypbind restart.
We've been using NIS like this for years - failover works just fine. In fact that is one of things I like about NIS, failover is built in and works with virtually no extra set up ...
What do you have in your /etc/yp.conf ?
James Pearson