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Re: NIS and NIS+ ephemeral ports

From: jks2557 () IS4 NYU EDU (Joseph K Shraibman)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 04:47:28 -0500


On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Roy Hooper wrote:


Sun NIS (and probably others) support what is known as securenets, which is
a list of IPs and Netmasks that are allowed to talk to your NIS server.
This file resides in /var/yp, and seems to be read only at startup.


Sending ypserv a HUP signal should cause the file to be re-read.

                       Joseph Shraibman a.k.a. TuPari
http://pages.nyu.edu/~jks2557                           jks2557 () is4 nyu edu

Current thread:

NIS and NIS+ ephemeral ports Dylan Loomis (Jan 13)
- Re: NIS and NIS+ ephemeral ports Roy Hooper (Jan 15)
  - Re: NIS and NIS+ ephemeral ports Joseph K Shraibman (Jan 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: NIS and NIS+ ephemeral ports Friedrichs, Oliver (Jan 15)
- Re: NIS and NIS+ ephemeral ports ga (Jan 15)