[TriLUG] YPBIND question: RedHat 7.0 vs. 7.1

[H. Wade Minter]

> I've setup many machines this way (someone else
> configured the server) under RedHat 7.0 without
> incident.  We recently installed 7.1 (clean install)
> and the above steps will not get YP working.
> Starting the YPBIND service results in a failure with
> the following in /var/log/messages:
> "attempting to contact ypserver failed"
>
> The YP server is functioning...as the rest of our
> office is using it successfully.

I ran into problems binding to a YP domain here at work.  I grabbed the
latest SRPM of ypbind from rawhide, rebuild, and things seem to be working
fine now.

$.02

--Wade

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