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Re: [PLUG] NIS gurus: listening for response to NIS broadcast request
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On Tue, February 14, 2006 3:42 am, sean finney wrote:
> here's a tricky one, which may only be tricky to me because i
> am not incredibly familiar with the internal workings of NIS:
>
> does anyone know of a way (cmdline or preferably system calls) to
> broadcast to find *all* NIS servers on the local network segment?
> something that would come a close 2nd place would be if anyone knew
> a way to broadcast for a list of masters for a specific domain...
>
>
> sean
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Since NIS only broadcasts when it starts up, and the rest of the time it
just waits for clients to connect, I'm not sure there is a way to do it...
-Cos
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