ypbind/NIS broadcast problem?

Mon Feb 13 14:10:47 UTC 2006

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 13:36 +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
> Is anybody else seeing a problem using ypbind on Raw Hide configured to 
> search for a NIS server via broadcast?
> 
> My test box is failing to find a server here, eventually giving an RPC 
> timeout error (on a network where every other non-Raw Hide box is 
> working in the same configuration).  Using the FC4 ypbind executable on 
> Raw Hide shows the same problem.
> 
> >From looking at tcpdump RPC calls are being sent and replies are being 
> received, but from strace the poll() call on the socket in ypbind is 
> always timing out.
> 
> Any ideas?

Can you exclude to be victim of
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103401

AFAIK, nothing much has happened to fix this bug in FC5.

Ralf