We are distributing user data over a wide area network however we are not
using NIS (too insecure) or NFS (target practice ;)).
> FWIW, using libc-5.4.33 and ypclients-2.2-970318 seems to make a fairly
> decent NIS implementation. But I've never been able to keep even the
> latest AMD up with it for more than 47 days.
Alas on AMD I can't help