Bug #130244 for Net-NIS: yp_bind only works with the default domain

Thu Aug 01 19:11:55 2019 chris.seip [...] hpe.com - Ticket created

Subject:	yp_bind only works with the default domain
Date:	Thu, 1 Aug 2019 22:24:55 +0000
To:	"bug-Net-NIS [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-Net-NIS [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	"Seip, Christopher" <chris.seip [...] hpe.com>

I can't see how to get Net::NIS::yp_bind(domainname) to work with a domain other than the one bound to in the local host's OS. If I reference this "non-native"/non-default NIS domain in a yp_bind() call or tieing to a Net::NIS object, I get the message "YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound". To configure for the possibility of this working, I have the local host's NIS servers mentioned in /etc/yp.conf as well as the "non-native" NIS servers, e.g.: domain mydomain server mymaster.mydnsdomain domain mydomain server myslave.mydnsdomain domain otherdomain server othermaster.mydnsdomain domain otherdomain server otherslave.mydnsdomain Is a Net::NIS client capable of binding to a separate domain from its host OS? Or does it just talk with the local ypbind process? There's some "bind this process" language in the Net::NIS perldoc page that suggests it might be capable of binding to a separate domain, as far-fetched as that seems. So I've pursued this possibility a bit. Is this a bug, a mis-configuration, or just something that Net::NIS will never be able to do? Thanks in advance for any feedback (if anyone steps in to maintain it or comment). Perl: 5.26.1 Module: Net::NIS version 0.44 Distro: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Fri Aug 02 08:58:02 2019 cpanrt [...] edsantiago.com - Correspondence added

Wow - I don't think I can answer this. It's been ten years since I've even had access to any system using NIS. I'm really sorry.

Fri Aug 02 08:58:03 2019 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Aug 02 15:17:58 2019 chris.seip [...] hpe.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	RE: [rt.cpan.org #130244] yp_bind only works with the default domain
Date:	Fri, 2 Aug 2019 19:17:45 +0000
To:	"bug-Net-NIS [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-Net-NIS [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	"Seip, Christopher" <chris.seip [...] hpe.com>

Thanks for your reply, Eduardo! And here I am working with multiple NIS domains in different countries. It would be useful to query those domains with Net::NIS from a single host. I could pull the data with ssh hostname ypcat -k blahblah and build the data structures myself. Not hard. 😊 Have a great weekend, - Chris Show quoted text

-----Original Message----- From: Eduardo Santiago Munoz via RT <bug-Net-NIS@rt.cpan.org> Sent: Friday, August 2, 2019 5:58 AM To: Seip, Christopher <chris.seip@hpe.com> Subject: [rt.cpan.org #130244] yp_bind only works with the default domain <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130244 > Wow - I don't think I can answer this. It's been ten years since I've even had access to any system using NIS. I'm really sorry.