NIS client bindings

I am working on configuring new NIS domain on my network. The master and slave servers work fine, but I need to find a solution for the clients that will switch to the next available slave server if the current one goes down. I cannot use ypbind -broadcast due to network security rules at my company. I see that the client will switch by itself but it takes about 30-60 seconds and during that time the sytem is really slow (even ps -ef hangs). Is there some kind of solution out there to jump to next available yp slave/master faster? I know Red Hat Linux ypbind does that without problems. I can't find anything like this for Solaris systems.
P.S.
I have Solaris 7, 8 and 9
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks

I found the failure by my self...
The keyserv itself has been replaced... I copied this file from an identical maschine and everything works fine.
I hope this helps someone...
greetz & best regards
xxx

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I have a Solaris 10 machine that doesn't want to bind to my NIS server. Here's some relevant information:
bash-3.00#ypwhich
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maintenance     9:58:10 svc:/network/nis/server:default
maintenance     9:58:17 svc:/network/nis/client:default
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Edited by: JohnnyUtah on Nov 3, 2008 10:14 AM

Nevermind - its working now.
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