>  > Definitely. But do we need to have this on by default? How many of these
>  > old clients are out there?
> 
> who knows... but it certainly doens't hurt anything to have it turned on!

Actually, it can conceivably hurt.

ypserv does a blocking call to gethostbyname() while processing the
remote request.  if a nameserver involved in the resolution is down,
it may take multiple seconds for that call to return; during that
time, ypserv will not process *any* other requests from any other
client, leading to sluggish/laggy/etc. behavior as perceived by any
system using that ypserv as its master. 

Fundamental distributed systems robustness principle:

 - servers should not make blocking remote calls to other servers,
because it makes them vulnerable to denying service when all the
worker threads get hung up waiting for responses..

					- Bill