[CentOS] yum causing RPC timed out?

Sat Feb 28 00:16:35 UTC 2015
Dave Burns <tburns at hawaii.edu>

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