> Maybe it's the threading code that's breaking. I'll try an older an > older non-threading ypbind and see whether that fixes it. I've just compiled ypbind-3.3, the non-thread version and it seems to be working fine. I guess the ypbind-mt versions are not ready for primetime yet, at least not on my machine. I found the source at: ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/NIS/ypbind-3.3.tar.gz Joseph Tam <tam@ocgy.ubc.ca>