[SunHELP] solaris 8 problem ...

[Adrian Florea]

The desired result is that:

when ethernet cable is disconnected (on a solaris 8 NIS client) and I try
ping on the NIS master to receive a response like: no answer from ... .
I have setup the nsswitch.conf and /etc/hosts with related entries but in
the situation described the whole station is down, crashed - I can do
nothing on the console...

Adrian.

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> Adrian Florea wrote:
> >
> > The whole thing worked only if I remove nis from nsswitch.conf and let
> > there only files options.
> > But that can't be a solution ...
> >
>
> You'd be surprised.  If the workstation can't contact the NIS server, it
> will do all sorts of funky things.  In this case, it probably is the
> solution.  Refer to my previous email where I explain what the
> workstation is doing when attempting name resolution.  If you
> purposfully make an NIS server unavailable to a workstation, you
> shouldn't be at all surprised when it shows you its arse.
>
> If you remove a node from the network, all network services (not local
> to that node) will be unavailable.  I'm still trying to understand what
> problem you're trying to solve though.  It's not clear what the desired
> result is...
> --
> Kurt
> kurt at k-huhn.com
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