On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:22:11 -0800 (PST) 
>  Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
>  > We've set the domain name to match the domain name of the server (norge).
>  > We made a file /var/yp/binding/norge.ypservers and fed it the correct IP
>  > address. Then we ran ypbind.
>  > 
>  > ypbind just sits there. ypcat seems to hang (I kill it after about 10
>  > seconds).
>  > 
>  > What did we do wrong?
> 
> ...more like "What did Ultrix do wrong?"  I seem to recall that Ultrix
> YP was not interoperable with just about everyone else's...

Since adding the -insecure command line option made it work, I agree.
Maybe ypbind's man page should be changed to mention working with Ultrix
_servers_, not Ultrix clients. ??

Take care,

Bill