Re: NIS slowing machine to a crawl?

From: Gerald Vogt (vogt_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 02/27/05

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    news wrote:
    > He updates and runs Norton AV, CWShredder, AdAware SE and Spybot
    > Search&Destroy every day, and his system is reportedly clean.

    Yes. The problem is NIS. That is well known. It requires a lot of system
    resources...

    > Is there any way to select a "safe" NIS configuration that will let the
    > machine run at something approaching its former rate? (I don't know NIS
    > at all, so have not been able to help him).

    Yes. Disable/uninstall file-sharing on this computer. Deinstall NIS.
    Check your computer with a port scanner like grc.com in the internet.
    Windows 98 had, I think, only the file-sharing service that would listen
    to the internet if it was running. Despite of that, there are not
    network services on a normal Windows 98. Therefore you won't need NIS as
    there is nothing that an attacker from the internet could attack. The
    port scan should give you insight if it worked. (You could certainly
    first deactivate NIS and then run the port scan to see if there is any
    problem.) If any port is reported open, post which port it is.

    Else the command prompt command "netstat -a" should give information
    about services running on the computer. But I am not sure if W98 has
    netstat and if its implementation is bug-free enough to report it
    properly...

    Gerald

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