ypbind init script fails

[Andrew Robinson]

I'm running FC6 on an eMachines laptop. I'm trying to configure NIS for 
my growing home network. I seem to be having peculiar problems with the 
ypbind init script. When I try to start the init script, it fails:

[root at proteus ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind start
Starting NIS service:                                      [  OK  ]
Binding  NIS service: .........                            [FAILED]
Shutting down NIS service:                                 [  OK  ]

However, I find that if I run the init script with the restart option, 
it will often, but not always, succeed:

[root at proteus run]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind restart
Shutting down NIS service:                                 [FAILED]
Starting NIS service:                                      [  OK  ]
Binding  NIS service: ...                                  [  OK  ]

If I start ypbind by itself from a command line, it always succeeds. I 
verify the successes and failures with ps, ypwhich and ypcat commands.

Anyone have a clue as to what is going on here? I've been looking for 
some indication in some log, but haven't found any. The goal is to get 
the init script to succeed on boot up. (The init script gives the same 
messages at bootup as it does when run with "start" from the command
line.)

Thanks!

Andrew Robinson