ypset — Point ypbind at a Particular Server
Synopsis
/usr/sbin/ypset [-d ypdomain][-h host] server
Description
Use the ypset command to bind a client node that is not on a broadcast net or that is on a broadcast net that is not running an NIS server host. ypset also is useful for debugging NIS client applications, for example, where an NIS map exists only at a single NIS server host.
To run ypset, you must initiate ypbind with the -ypset or -ypsetme options. See ypbind(1M). ypset tells ypbind to get NIS services for the specified ypdomain from the ypserv process running on a server. An NIS client may not discover that the server is down or is not running ypserv until it tries to get a binding for the domain. At this point, the binding set by ...
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