[ILUG] wierd NIS problem

[Philip Reynolds]

John P . Looney's [john at antefacto.com] 22 lines of wisdom included:
:> NIS on a mandrake 7.2 box is going funny. It works and all, but make
:>takes a long time to run. Also;
:>
:>[root at dogbert yp]# rpcinfo -u localhost ypserv
:>rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
:>program 100004 version 1 is not available
:>rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out
:>program 100004 version 2 is not available

Stick in your hostname instead of localhost, just to see if that's
working, make sure you have your domainname set.
Are you using ypserv 1.1 or ypserv1.2 ? Is Everything in
/var/yp/Makefile correct?
Phil.