In the case where ypserv is started with the -dns flag, fall through to
the DNS lookup code only if asked to match a map with the word 'host'
in its name. This prevents failed matches on non-host maps from being
incorrectly handed off to DNS.
register ourselves as an NIS version 1 UDP server to pacify older SunOS 4
ypbinds that seem to insist on having one around. All this does is allow
ypserv to respond to DOMAIN_NONACK requests that are periodically
transmitted by ypbind: the server will not actually work as an NIS v1
server in any other way.
Unlike the mainline code, which implements this as a compile-time
option, this feature can be turned on with the newly-added -k flag
at runtime.
Bunped version number to 0.13. (What the hell.)
Updated the man page to reflect this change, also made a couple of small
edits to reflect the recent changes in the /etc/rc* setup.
correctly (specified wrong fields to awk). Note that the files in question
are noe the local /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd files: this Makefile
expects there to be a seperate master.passwd file under /var/yp for NIS
database creation.
This is a hacked-up port of the ypserv-0.11 server from the NYS project
written by Peter Eriksson.
The original package included some map creating and dumping tools and
was based on GDBM. This version has been modified in the following
ways:
- GDBM replaced with DB and many weird hacks made to the read_database()
function because of this.
- implimented the ypxfr service (using ypxfr from the yps-0.21 package,
aso from the NYS project)
- added code to check the TCP port from which NIS requests originate:
the server will refuse to serve the master.passwd.{byname|byuid} maps
if the request doesn't come from a privileged port. Normally, only the
superuser can issue such a request. Requests for the passwd.{bynam|byuid}
maps aren't affected. There will be a small change made to getpwent.c
in libc to complement this.
- added code to do DNS lookups via actual resolver queries instead of
relying on gethostbyname() and friends. The author noted in the original
documentation that a loop condition could arise where the server would
query itself for hostsname lookups. Using direct DNS lookups prevents
this from happening.
- added code to properly fork() the server into the background unless
invoked with the -debug flag.
- Added combined syslog/perror function.
- fixed a few bugs (which were probably introduced by all the other
changes)
- Created a bmake Makefile.
Note that this package can be linked against the tcp_wrapper package
to provide address-based authentication, but this isn't done by default
since the tcp_wrapper package isn't part of FreeBSD.
