Re: domain name problem.

[Xavier Beaudouin <kiwi@squirrel.certix.fr>]

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Cindy Xin wrote:
> Our LAN (not connect to the Internet) used to have a SUNOS 4.1 as the 
> NIS server. Recently, we replace it with a PC running OPENBSD 2.1.
> 
> Every aspect of the YP works fine, and all the clients can "ypwhich"
> and "ypcat xxx" correctly. While when we tried to send an email on a 
> client running Solaris 2.5, we got the following error:
> 
> Cannot bind to domain XXXXXX: no such map in server's domain: Bad file number
> 
> And the mail can never be sent out, simply lost...
> (Running "domainname" on the client still give the corrent domain name.)

There is mainly two reasons :

 - you don't have a map maned mail.aliases
 - your sendmail on your SunOS 5.x hosts seems to try to look a this.

Solutions I use :

 - add the map mail.aliases (check out your /var/yp/Makefile)
 - or eventualy compile the real sendmail from www.sendmail.org with
   the -DNIS option enabled for the support of NIS...

Xavier

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