On Friday 2007-08-17 07:32 +1000, David Laight output:
:Ok, I'm trying to get NIS working between 2 test systems (using old
:kernels which shouldn't be broken by my recent changes!).
:
:With 'ypserv -fl' running on system 'a', 'ypbind' on 'b' populates
:/var/yp/binding/<domain>.version.
:
:But 'ypcat user' just gives 'no such map user.name.  Reason: RPC failure'
:on both systems, and immediately.

Wrong command.

ypcat passwd
ypmatch david passwd   (with some appropriate value for "david")

Regards,
Geoff