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.TH yppoll 8 "April 2010" "YP Tools 4.2.3"
.SH NAME
yppoll - return version and master server of a NIS map
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B yppoll
[
.BI \-h " host"
]
[
.BI \-d " domain"
]
.I mapname
.LP
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B yppoll
queries
.BR ypserv (8)
which host the NIS master server for a named map is and what the order
number of this map is.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-h " host"
Ask the NIS server process running on
.I host
for information about
.IR mapname.
If
.I host
is not specified, the server polled is the default server returned by
.BR ypwhich (1).
.TP
.BI \-d " domain"
Specify a domain other than the default domain as returned by
.BR domainname (8).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR domainname (8),
.BR ypbind (8),
.BR ypcat (8),
.BR ypmatch (1),
.BR ypserv (8),
.BR ypset (8),
.BR ypwhich (1)
.LP
.SH AUTHOR
.B yppoll
is part of the
.B yp-tools
package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.