Stephen Hurd wrote:
> Well, I decided to fire up my little IIci again and fiddle with it 
> some more.  Got autobooting working, rlogin going, NFS mounts mounted, 
> and decided it was time to join the NIS domain I use at home.
>
> Set the domainname and frobbed /etc/nsswitch.conf as normal then ran 
> ``ypbind -broadcast''
> At this point, it hung like as though it couldn't contact a server.
> So, after digging through the manpage some more, I created 
> /var/yp/binding/<mydomain>.ypservers with a singe line containing the 
> name of my NIS server.
> Stopped using -broadcast.  Still hung.
> Went back to nsswitch.conf and discovered to my chagrin that I put nis 
> first *blush* fixed that and changed the .ypservers file to contain 
> the IP instead of the host.
> Still hung.
>
> Well, maybe it can't connect to that server then... so I tried to ping 
> it.  No go.  No packets sent no matter how long you wait... which 
> struck me as odd, so I tried pinging localhost with the same results.
>
> So, do I have one or two problems here?

And the problem was the date!  The date was set in 1904 which, of 
course, blew up anything attempting to be time-sensitive.  Synchronizing 
the date on startup and running ntp and no more problems of this sort.