On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:51:24AM +1300, Clint Dilks wrote: > How is your /etc/yp.conf defined. NIS failover works flawlessly here if > we have /etc/yp.conf like > ypserver nis2 > ypserver nis You also need to ensure you can resolve "nis" and "nis2" without using NIS, so you may also need to them into /etc/hosts and ensure nsswitch.conf hosts entry begins with "files". -- rgds Stephen