Why do some of the network services fail at boot time but work once Red Hat Enterprise Linux system is up?

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Issue

  • Some services that require network connectivity do not start properly during system boot, but they can be started manually once the system is up and running.
  • NIS service does not start at boot. Once the server is up and running, the NIS service can be started with out any issues. /var/log/messages shows the following error messages at boot time:

    Jul 27 08:37:33 server1 ypbind: Host name lookup failure
    Jul 27 08:38:27 server1 ypbind[8554]: broadcast: RPC: Timed out.
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • initscripts(/etc/init.d/network)

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