Help diagnosing NIS breakage ?

[Daniel Eischen]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Robin P. Blanchard wrote:

> Ok...Been systematically stepping through the sources to locate the point at
> which NIS became broken.  Here are the results:
> 
> -CURRENT src date       report
> -------------------     -------
> 2003.06.18.00.00.00     success
> 2003.06.25.00.00.00     success
> 2003.06.26.00.00.00     success
> 2003.06.27.00.00.00     sucesss
> 2003.06.28.00.00.00     failure
> 2003.07.01.00.00.00     failure
> 2003.07.09.00.00.00     failure
> latest (last night)     failure
> 
> So, something between 27 and 28 June resulted in this NIS breakage. Hopefully
> this will jog someone's memory and give ideas as to my/our next step as to
> diagnosing/repairing what's wrong here. I have a test box with src's and obj
> 's from both 27 and 28 june availabe for testing, should someone like to ssh
> in and poke around.

Try backing out rev 1.82 of src/lib/libc/gen/getpwent.c.

If that works, then perhaps there is something wrong
with FreeBSD's yp_master (on server end).

-- 
Dan Eischen