ypbind/NIS broadcast problem?

[Joe Orton]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:10:47PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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

The bug there is that ypbind et al can prevent some services like CUPS 
from starting up; not the other way round.

joe