[CentOS] NIS failover

Thu Dec 17 20:53:52 UTC 2009
Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org>

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:51:24AM +1300, Clint Dilks wrote:
> How is your /etc/yp.conf defined.  NIS failover works flawlessly here if 
> we have /etc/yp.conf like
> ypserver nis2
> ypserver nis

You also need to ensure you can resolve "nis" and "nis2" without using
NIS, so you may also need to them into /etc/hosts and ensure
nsswitch.conf hosts entry begins with "files".

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rgds
Stephen