Martyn Klassen wrote: > With a bit more digging it seems that the rpc registration is somehow > failing. > > #rpcinfo -p | grep ypbind > > Returns nothing, but it should return something like > > 100007 2 udp 620 ypbind > 100007 1 udp 620 ypbind > 100007 2 tcp 623 ypbind > 100007 1 tcp 623 ypbind > > This even though the ypbind process is running. <snip> Have you checked iptables-save? Also, you *do* know that everyone's been deprecating NIS for years, it being extremely insecure? mark