In article <42A839E7.9000008@iki.fi>,
	Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi> writes:
> - why is NIS database queries done with local accounts?

What does your "/etc/nsswitch.conf" look like?

> - why isn't the NIS calls timing out?

Because it is supposed not to. Imagine your e-mail server can now longer
talk to the NIS server and starts bouncing e-mails because it doesn't
know the accounts any longer.

Yes, it is annoying. But having time outs would often be even more
annoying.

> - anyone else having problems with RPC services?

Nope.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/