> I wonder if we shoulad add this into the BUGS section of nsswitch.conf.5 
> (unless someone's gonna fix the 'compat' code)...
> 
>   - Hubert (using non-compat NIS since ~forever)

;-)

If its going to stick around, then maybe nsswitch.conf should not default
to it.  A simple warning in the BUGS section that it becomes more and
more inefficient the larger the map gets would suffice.