NIS broken on 10.4.9?

[fan at cns.nyu.edu]

"Bill Janssen" <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

> I see that the Bresink document now says that 10.4.9 is so riddled
> with startup inconsistencies and flaws, that it doesn't make sense to
> use NIS with it.  He chiefly seems to be talking about the use of
> remote NIS login accounts, though.
> 
> http://www.bresink.de/osx/nis.html#BugsTiger
> 
> Any solution to these problems in sight?

The following workaround on Bresink's page seems to work for the most part.
You may have to restart your machine more than once though.

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To increase the likelihood that the dependencies between the 
network interfaces, the DHCP client, the lookup service (lookupd), 
the directory services client, and its NIS plug-in are resolved in 
correct order, some users had success by sending lookupd a 
reconfiguration signal very late in the startup process. You can 
do this for example by adding the command

/bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/lookupd.pid`
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Best,
Paul