Re: RPC timeout message - what does it mean?

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Author: Kevin Brown
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: RPC timeout message - what does it mean?
> I'm getting zillions of the following in the syslog on one of my machines.
> (It repeats every few minutes.) Does anyone know what it means?
>
> May 5 09:43:47 nakota ypbind[669]: broadcast: RPC: Timed out.
>
> I have googled it but haven't seen anyt definitive answer to these problems.


ypbind is a daemon used to deal with NIS authentication.

RPC: Remote Procedure Call

That it times out just means nothing on your network is responding to the
daemons request.

If you aren't using NIS then you should shut off the yp services.
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