On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote: > > "do_ypcall" is a NIS error message. (Previous NIS was called "yellow > pages"; the "yp" in do_ypcall is a reference to that). > > Maybe you have "hosts: files nis" in /etc/nsswitch.conf or something > else that's causing the OS to want to talk to NIS. > grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files nis dns myhostname Maybe I should change to hosts: files dns nis myhostname ? > > You _DO_ have a problem with your NIS setup somewhere. > It is a problem if yum expects it to be something else. NIS passes all the tests I have ("ypcat <various>" outputs what I expect). thanks, Dave