Hello out there,
thanks for the quick and overwhelming response to my question about
NIS-Server and routers.
Here's the summary:
As it's been guessed, there is no solution other then:
. Put a nis-server (better two) in each segment. This definitely
is not a very good soloution here, since we have segments with NO suns
inside, and we try to be homogenous at least on the nis-side...
. Every machine with a harddisk should be a nis-server, well, how to make
an old apollo into a nis-server ?
. Put more ethernet-interfaces into the nis-server and let this one act
as a nis-'router'. Could go but is uncomfortable to us, since our
routers with the segments are located far from each other, thus we
would need at least 3 well equipped machines.
. Live with it, hm, we currently try so, but that's no good
. Ask your router-provider 3Com about a solution, and yes, that's it.
We run version 7 and starting with version 7.1 there is an udp-helper
included which should do just that :-) :-)
Well, thanks for the info's anyway. Your responses assured me that there
really is no other solution that the ones just discussed.
I'm looking forward to the new 3com-software.
Mathias Gaertner
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