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From: Michael Blandford <mlblandf@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with NIS maps
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:43:33 -0700
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To: Clif Smith <kernel@cjs226.com>
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Clif Smith wrote:

> 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?


Yes, it is called replicated server.

It is supported in the autofs-4.1.x family.  You should upgrade.

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Michael