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Browse All TopicsI have a Solaris 9 system that I'm doing testing with.
I'm trying to do a ypinit -s nisserver...
My problem is, that the server which is providing the NIS maps takes awhile to reply to some of the maps, such as mail.byaddr as it has around 8,000 entries.
So when it goes after these large maps, I'm getting RPC timeout errors:
ypxfr(get_misc_recs) RPC call to ldaptest1 failed: RPC: Timed out
ypxfr(get_misc_recs) RPC call to ldaptest1 failed: RPC: Timed out
Is there a value I can adjust somewhere that will raise the rpc timeout limit? It appears to be at 120 seconds from what I can tell...
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