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From: Rolf Grossmann <rg@progtech.net>
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Subject: Re: portmap, bind(), and NIS
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Hi,

Matthew George wrote:

>ypbind will attempt to find a server by issuing a broadcast rpc request to
>the local network.  When portmap is not bound to INADDR_ANY, it will not
>reply to these requests.
>
What about the -S option to ypbind? That way it doesn't broadcast but 
use the given servers. It's what I was using when yp client and server 
were not on the same subnet.

Rolf