Please help with yp binding problem

[Andrew Cherenson]

In article <12194 at ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> jamison at yuma.acns.colostate.edu (Jamie Gulden) writes:
>
>   I am having a problem with yp (NIS) and was hoping someone could
>help out.
>
>   PROBLEM:  When a 4D/25 is bound to a yp server that goes down it won't
>             rebind to a different server.
>
>   INFO: 4D/25TG w/ IRIX 3.3.1 and NSF 3.3
>         3 sun servers running SunOS 4.1.1
>
>   WHAT HAPPENS: The PI is running ypbind and ypwhich returns the hostname
>       of one of the servers.  The PI will bind to any of the three servers
>       at boot depending on which responds first.  If that server goes down
>       the PI will start printing the following message:
>
>yp server not responding for domain ".VIS.ColoState.EDU"; still trying (v2)
>
>       Typing ypwhich returns that the domain is not bound.  The only way
>       I have been able to get it to rebind to a different server is to 
>       reboot the system.
>
>   WHAT I HAVE TRIED:  Looking in the IRIS NFS manual under debugging a
>       yp {client|server} the exact error message is given but all of the
>       suggestions it gives are allready being done (ypserv is running on
>       all machines and none of the machines or the network are overworked,
>       the domain name is correct on all machines, other machines are
>       getting services off of the other two servers just fine).  Our suns
>       work fine and will rebind when needed to a different server.  Also
>       ypset won't let me set the server.
>
>   Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks apriori,  Jamie.
>      

Jamie determined that the PI was using the Internet standard "1-style" 
broadcast IP address and the Suns were using the retrograde "0-style" address.
See Section 8.3.4 in the Network Communications Guide for details.