[Users] Re: Networking confusion and NIS client inside a CT
E Frank Ball III
efball at efball.com
Fri Jan 8 16:38:06 EST 2010
In your /etc/yp.conf file do you specify "broadcast"? That won't work
in a vz container. (domain <nis domain> broadcast). I get around this by
specifying a server:
domain <nis domain> server <servername>
E Frank Ball efball at efball.com
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:03:52PM -0500, Steve Scaffidi wrote:
> We've just started using OpenVZ on a test box here at work and I've
> come across some odd things I don't understand, and can't figure out
> from the wiki.
>
> It began when I attempted to start an NIS client on a CT and it
> couldn't bind to the NIS server, which is on the host system. However,
> other networking functionality seemed to work properly: ping, wget,
> ssh, etc... (BTW, other physical hosts on the same LAN can bind to the
> NIS server on that host just fine)
>
> I checked connectivity from the CT to the host, and it seemed fine.
> The host has the IP address 10.1.10.60 and the CT has the address
> 10.1.10.101. The CT's network interface is venet0:0 which is a PTP,
> and there is also a venet0 with no address. This seems to make sense
> given what I've read on the wiki. The part that has me scratching my
> head is this:
>
> ct-101:/# route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 192.0.2.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 venet0
> 0.0.0.0 192.0.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 venet0
>
> I have no idea where this address is coming from or why network
> functionality seems to work at all with this here! I'm really not sure
> what questions to ask or what to search for, hence this email to the
> list! :)
>
> BTW, both host and CT are debian lenny systems. I started with a
> template that was already there, called "debian-5.0-x86". OpenVZ was
> installed and configured on this system by someone else, but I can't
> figure out what he may have done.
>
> Any hints as to what's going on, and furthermore, how I might be able
> to get the NIS client working?
>
> --
> -- Steve Scaffidi <stephen at scaffidi.net>
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