[Sunhelp] NIS

Melinda Taylor melinda at phys.unsw.edu.au
Wed Jan 26 22:20:55 CST 2000


Hi! Thankyou all for your help! My machine is happy again.

Thanks :D

Melinda

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Jarrett Carver wrote:

> stop-a
> boot -s
> 
> Once logged on in single user mode do a `sys-unconfig`, this will 
> unconfigure the current system network settings (i.e IP address, name 
> resolution, etc.). When you reboot it will prompt you to enter this 
> information.
> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Melinda Taylor <melinda at phys.unsw.edu.au>
> Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [Sunhelp] NIS
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:41:27 +1100 (EST)
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a machine running NIS (so i just found out!!)
> and I changed its IP address over to our  new range of IPs.
> I did this for a variety of machine running solaris 2.6
> and then went on to do the final machine, this one running
> SUNOS 4.1.3. I hadn't realized it was running NIS as
> it is not my machine (and there is no need for NIS here anyway).
> When I rebooted after changing the Ip the machine hung at:
> 
> Services: ypbind
> RPC keyserver
> NIS: server not responding for domain "phys.unsw.edu.au"; Still trying
> NIS: server not responding for domain "phys.unsw.edu.au"; Still trying
> NIS: server not responding for domain "phys.unsw.edu.au"; Still trying
> 
> etc
> 
> How can I get the mchine to boot so I can try and debug what is wrong?
> (by looking at files)
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Melinda
> 
> 
> 
> 
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