ypset - bind ypbind to a particular NIS server

ypset is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.

YP Tools 4.2.3                                     April 2010                                           ypset(8)

       In   order   to  run ypset, ypbind must be initiated with the -ypset or -ypsetme options.  See ypbind(8).
       ypset tells ypbind to get NIS services for the specified domain from the  ypserv(8)  process  running  on
       server.

       In  cases  where  several hosts on the local net are supplying NIS services, it is possible for ypbind to
       rebind to another host even while you attempt to find out if the ypset operation succeeded. For  example,
       you can type:

       example%ypsethost1example%ypwhichhost2
       which  can  be  confusing. This is a function of the NIS subsystem's attempt to know always a running NIS
       server, and occurs when host1 does not respond to  ypbind  because  it  is  not  running  ypserv  (or  is
       overloaded), and host2, running ypserv, gets the binding.
       Server  indicates the NIS server to bind to,  and must be specified as a name or an IP address. This will
       work only if the node has a current valid binding for the domain in question, and ypbind has been set  to
       allow use of ypset.  In most  cases, server should be specified as an IP address.

       ypset - bind ypbind to a particular NIS server

-ddomain
              Specify a domain other than the default domain as returned by domainname(8).
       -hhostname
              Set the NIS binding on host hostname
               instead of the local machine.

domainname(8), ypbind(8), ypcat(8), ypmatch(1), ypserv(8), yppoll(8), ypwhich(1)

ypset [ -ddomain ] [ -hhostname ] server