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From: Sergio Lenzi <lenzi@cwbtwo.bsi.com.br>
To: Derek Laufenberg x7-4534 <laufen@sol.med.ge.com>
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Subject: Re: Slow boot
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Ref: slow boot due to NIS client.

In my site the problem was with the broadcast mask.
the yp client finds the yp server by broadcasting, so if
the ifconfig broadcast is too small, it cannot find the server,
so it waits...

Sergio de Almeida Lenzi.