I have a problem to start up ypbind on an NIS client.
Although the daemon used to work normally, once I restarted ypserver on the NIS server computer, it cannot start up.
It looks like problem on rpc rather than ypbind though.

ypbind cannot start up:
# /etc/init.d/ypbind restart
Shutting down ypbind done
Starting ypbind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No NIS server found done

also rpc cannot through ypbind:
# rpcinfo -u localhost ypbind
rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
program 100007 version 0 is not available

ypbind is registered though:
# rpcinfo -p localhost
program vers proto port service
100000 4 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 3 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 4 udp 111 portmapper
100000 3 udp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
100007 2 udp 1021 ypbind
100007 1 udp 1021 ypbind
100007 2 tcp 1022 ypbind
100007 1 tcp 1022 ypbind

This is my first post on this forum, so please correct me if there should be more information or any.
Thanks in advance.
Hiroko

Have a read of this HOWTO http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...onfiguring_NIS
Incidentally, NIS is a plan text protocol .. consider LDAP+TLS instead http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...DAP_and_RADIUS