Re: NIS setup

["Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>]

In article <[🔎] 41E71C6E.8070600@amfes.com>,
Daniel L. Miller <dmiller@amfes.com> wrote:
>I've been having a heck of a time trying to get NIS working on my Debian 
>network.  I've tried following the instructions of the Debian NIS HOWTO 
>and the NIS HOWTO.  Anyone have some experience with this who can give 
>me a hand?

It seems that recent installers add your hostname to /etc/hosts
as 127.0.0.1. That tends to break NIS (and perhaps other things too).

Mike.