NAME

yppoll — ask version of NIS map from NIS server

SYNOPSIS

yppoll

[-T] [-h host] [-d domain] mapname

DESCRIPTION

yppoll asks a NIS server process for the order number and which host is the master server for mapname.

The options are as follows:

-T

Use TCP protocol instead of UDP for request if the -h option is present.

-h host

Ask the NIS server process running on host for information about mapname. If host is not specified, the server polled is the default server returned by ypwhich(1).

-d domain

Use the NIS domain domain instead of the default domain as returned by domainname(1).

SEE ALSO

domainname(1), ypcat(1), ypmatch(1), ypwhich(1), nis(8), ypbind(8), ypset(8)

AUTHORS

Theo de Raadt and John Brezak