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Solaris 9 rpc timeout errors during nis map transfer

I 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...

yuzh

ypxfrd is not running on the NIS master server. Login to the master server and start it:
ypxfrd

please read:
http://www.softpanorama.org/Net/Application_layer/NIS/nis_maps.shtml
http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/nis.html

shadowrise

ASKER

As I understand, PADL imulates a yp server. So ypxfrd is not necessary. None-the-less. I did try starting ypxfrd on the yp server, and I get the same RPC timeout.

Is there no way to adjust the rpc timeout limit?

yuzh

Try to change the settings for: (default is 60 seconds)
nfs:nfs_cots_timeo
or
nfs:nfs3_cots_timeo
see:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-7137/6md5pauk4?a=view
or:
http://docsun.cites.uiuc.edu/sun_docs/C/solaris_9/SUNWaadm/SOLTUNEPARAMREF/p22.html

You need to put them in /etc/system and reboot.

shadowrise

ASKER

I tried those settings, but they didn't seem to make a difference.

After speaking with PADL, I finally found out the product doesn't support NIS slaves.

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