Fedora 10 ypbind error

[Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve]

> > Interesting. I wonder why it doesn't work for me with NetworkManager running.
> > We have an unusual network mask: 255.255.252.0
> > The NIS server + backup are in xxx.xxx.194.xxx while the client is in
> > xxx.xxx.192.xxx.
> > Static IP.
>
> I use dhcp, using "quasi-static IPs" (fixed IP<->mac address mapping) on
> my dhcp server.

In my case the IP is configured via
/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
using the IPADDR variable.
BTW: I used the graphical tool to enter the information, but it made
a mess of the netmask (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475419).
I corrected this by editing the ifcfg-eth0 file directly.

> > Other than that I didn't really do much to configure the machine.
> 
> Wild guess: How does your /etc/yp.conf look like?

I added two lines at the end (these are the only non-comment lines):

domain xxxxxxxx server xxx.xxx.gov
domain xxxxxxxx server xxx.xxx.gov

> Do you have NISDOMAIN set in /etc/sysconfig/network?

Yes, that's the one line I added to that file:

NISDOMAIN=xxxxxxxx

I.e. it looks just like your file.

> On my machines, which are using NetworkMangler,
> /etc/yp.conf is the default yp.conf (== everything commented out ==
> effectively empty), but NISDOMAIN is set in /etc/sysconfig/network

OK, that's different, but I don't want to experiment anymore now that it
is working. I don't need NetworkManager. The machine is part of a
cluster and never moved around (I gather NetworkManager helps if you
move between networks a lot.)

Ralf