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If other NIS clients are behaving normally, check the Ethernet cabling on the workstation that is getting this message. On SPARC machines, disconnected network cabling also produces a series of "no carrier" messages. On x86 machines, the above message might be your only indication that network cabling is disconnected.

If many NIS clients on the network are giving this message, go to the NIS server in question and reboot or repair as necessary. To locate the NIS server for a domain, run the ypwhich(1) command. When the server machine comes back in operation, NIS clients give an "NIS server for domain OK" message.