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From: Clif Smith <kernel@cjs226.com>
Subject: Problem with NIS maps
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:07:26 -0500
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I'm in a large heterogeneous environment located across multiple 
locations.  I use NIS maps such as:
/home -rw austin:/export/home boston:/export/home phoenix:/export/home

with the following in /etc/auto.master:
/nis      yp      auto_indirect_nis

With AIX and Solaris, automounter chooses the server with the fewest
hops to determine which server to mount from.  Unfortunately, it appears
Suse's 8.1 implementation of automounter (v3.1.7-556) seems to choose 
the first listed.

Has anyone run into this before?

Thanks, Clif