[ILUG] wierd NIS problem

[Philip Reynolds]

John P . Looney's [john at antefacto.com] 44 lines of wisdom included:
:>[root at dogbert /root]# cat /etc/hosts
:>127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost
:>172.24.1.101    dogbert.internal.antefacto.com dogbert
:>
:>[root at dogbert /root]# rpcinfo -u dogbert ypserv
:>program 100004 version 1 ready and waiting
:>program 100004 version 2 ready and waiting
:>[root at dogbert /root]# 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

Make sure the NIS domainname is in the right place...

Solaris and Debian (all the ones I've used):
/etc/defaultdomain

RedHat:
Has a var NISDOMAIN in /etc/sysconfig/network

There are some other distro specific ones, SuSE is in /etc/rc.config
afaik, I'm not sure if that's the problem, but it's worth checking
out. 

I also presume you ran
dominname nis.domain

I always use the proper domain name as opposed to localhost, the
more advanced tutorials/explanations of using rpcinfo have used the
hostnames instead of localhost and have always been perfect for me.
I can't just think of a good reason why it's not working, but it
might be a problem with rpcinfo itself or the way you have it
setup(?)
Phil.