Ubuntu
nis package

  1. Bug #50430
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 50430

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Sebastian Stark (kybercran) wrote :

It's funny. The same problem exists on Mac OS X Tiger: ypbind starts before the system received an IP from DHCP. Now Ubuntu joins the crowd.

I put the following in /etc/network/interfaces:

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
up /etc/init.d/nis restart

This seems to help sometimes.