Thanks Thorsten, I'll look at our NIS locations. I'm fairly sure that each client isn't beefy enough to handle all requests on that VLAN if the other servers failed. A good argument for some investment in hardware because at the moment I just get the old stuff that the NT guys can't use. Sorry about the replay business - just being lazy ;-) Damian Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
Hi,
you should not post a message with a new subject and topic as replay on this list ;)
The ypbind load balancing works fine here. It seems your slave servers are in the wrong place of the network. Here, we have always more than one server which is reacheable from the client at the same cost. So if you have 2 slaves in one subnet, every slave has about 50% of the clients, with 3 one 33% (but in worst case our NIS servers are all able to handle the NIS traffic alone). You can try to sort the yp.conf for priority: Use the best server for this client at first and so on. If not all clients have the same yp.conf, they will start searching the fastest server with another server.
Thorsten
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