NIS problem

From: Adam Maloney (adamm_at_sihope.com)
Date: 10/14/03

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    To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:06:49 -0500

    Feel my pain :)

    We have just begun a migration to NIS (please keep the "NIS sucks",
    "Sendmail sucks", "FreeBSD sucks", "You suck", "I suck", etc posts to a
    dull roar.)

    In the last couple of days we have seen a lot of messages like the one
    below appearing in /var/log/messages:

    Oct 13 06:14:58 xxxxx ypserv[45883]: access to master.passwd.byname
    denied -- client 1.2.3.4:3458 not privileged

    This goes on for a number of minutes, and then fixes itself.

    Obviously, the problem is that the NIS lookup request is coming from a
    non-priveleged (> 1024) port, and ypserv won't honor it. What's not so
    obvious is why/how this is happening.

    I'm suspecting it's Sendmail, since the frequency of the message
    somewhat coincides with the rate of incoming mail on this box. But I
    can't seem to find any clues on the web or usenet confirming this. Has
    anyone seen this before, or know of a solution?

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