Managers,
I have C2-security with auditing turned on. I also have NIS master
and slave. I am at 4.0b, using DU4100's, 3000/900s and for the NIS
master and slave have DU255s.
For the last week or so I have been experiencing the NIS clients all
of a sudden being served by the NIS slave - the only message in the
syslog.dated logs are similar to can't reach the NIS master node so it
goes to the slave node. Also oon some nodes - on the console log -
states that NFS server is stale.
This happens in domino fashion - first one node then another, etc. A
work around is if the user notices this is to do a ypwhich and to tell
me that they are using the NIS slave -
Then I come over and do, as root, /usr/sbin/nis stop and then start so
it will go back to the NIS master.
If I do not do the above - then all goes down hill and the NIS master
can't even ping nobody - not even the NIS slave.
At this point the only solution is to power off/one the NIS master and
slave (rebooting does not solve anything).
Another weird thing is that when this happens - when the NIS master
and slave can't talk to anyone - when I disconnect the fddi cable - I
don't even get the expected message of "fta0 unavailable" in the
console window.
My network man tried at this point to give me a point to point
connection and I still could not ping out. Again, I had to power off
then on and then everything was o.k.
I have logged a DEC call on this - marked critical - but I still
haven't heard from them. Any help or pointers would help.
A DEC friend told me it sounded like network partitioning - how is
that fixed?
Thank you,
Louis lamullikin_at_ccgate.hac.com
Received on Thu Apr 23 1998 - 19:25:31 NZST