NIS to a local server can use it.
In this case, a lot of programs break when loopback broadcast is disabled!
I found this when configuring a firewall once.
Ok, you can configure NIS to not use broadcast. But it's not the
default, and there are valid reasons for wanting to do it the broadcast
way.
-- Jamie
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