[SOLVED] Re: ypbind can't connect to ypserv on NIS master server

[Silas Silva <silasdb%gmail.com@localhost>]

> rpcbind and ypserv start ok, but ypbind doesn't. I need to Ctrl-C it.
> The most strange thing is that, while ypbind looks for the server, I
> can't ping (like ypbind, it also myself neither the external IP nor
> localhost).

ypbind was in fact not resolving the host because of a miss
configuration in nsswitch.conf. I had the line:

    hosts:          nis files

After asking for help, a friend told me to change this line to:

    hosts:          files dns

and everything worked fine.

Another good reference is
http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=port-xen&a=2007-06&t=4519437.

Thank you very much.

-- 
Silas Silva - http://www.purl.org/NET/silas/site