Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!mike From: mike@istsists.ca (Mike Clarkson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Setting netmask Message-ID: <272@istsists.ca> Date: 28 Nov 88 05:56:33 GMT Article-I.D.: istsists.272 References: <17644@adm.BRL.MIL> Organization: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science Lines: 25 In article <17644@adm.BRL.MIL>, VINCE%UCONNVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes: > In trying to conect our Sun network to the outside world, we have run > into avery strange problem in trying to set the netmask. Supposeddly > adding the netmask option to the ifconfig command in rc.boot will do > it. In fact this works on the diskless clients (in fact one sees the > comforting message "Setting the netmask" during the boot process), but > it does not work on the file server, where the option seems to be ignored. Perhaps people more knowledgable/intelligent than I can explain why, but my experience was that you have to rebuild the yellow pages master database on your server. ypinit -m will do it. It seems the yellow pages stashes a copy of the netmask in some obscure and/or undocumented fashion. Could someone explain this or correct me if I'm wrong? Mike. -- Mike Clarkson mike@ists.UUCP Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science mike@ists.yorku.ca York University, North York, Ontario, uunet!mnetor!yunexus!ists!mike CANADA M3J 1P3 +1 (416) 736-5611