NIS client lookup for NIS master server problem

Dear All,
I have solaris OS 10 installed on NIS master and slave server and also client. Sometimes, my client cannot work properly. Although it is configured to lookup for NIS master as the server, it lookup for slave server instead occasionally. It will be alright after reboot. Please advise.
Any help is much appreciated.
best regards
vlsi

I'm not sure why you would want the client to not bind to the slave and only to the master. That's the whole point of having slave servers.
Just rerun ypinit -c on the client if you want to change which server the client binds to.
If your slave server is not working right, fix it.

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