Re: NIS Slave can't be auto-discovered

Ian Melnick said: > Anyway, I was wondering what that "thing" was, so that I could configure > the slave server the same way so that reconfiguration of the clients > wasn't necessary, and they'd auto-discover the slave when the master > wasn't available. probably broadcast mode: -broadcas

NIS Slave can't be auto-discovered

Hello, all I set up a NIS master a while ago, for use with a small network. Since then it's grown, and I found a need for a NIS slave for times that the master has gone down due to hardware upgrades, etc. So I set up the slave, and it seems to work right. Clients switch to it when NIS is no longe