Re: IP changes in 2.3.4x make things wierd?

From: Vince Weaver (weave@eng.umd.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 20 2000 - 14:44:07 EST


> Disable NIS entirely on your system. The C library is trying
> to lookup hostnames and user names using NIS, and since you aparently
> have no NIS or portmapper running, it times out trying to contact
> that server.

thanks, this did definitely fix it. I re-enabled portmap [which I had
turned off a while ago for security reasons] and things act normally
again.

is there any reason that the 2.3.4x kernels in particular make this an
issue? As recent as 2.3.34 with the same config this didn't happen.

Vince

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