NIS - "Could not read ypservers map" during "make"

[ken at flyingtoasters.net]

>> 2)  Is it running ypbind?
>
>   No.  My understanding is that ypbind is only run on NIS clients, no?

No.  It's run on everything -- the server is, indeed, still a client
(unless for some bizarre reason it was determined that even though it
served the data, it didn't need to see it.  I've seen that once or twice
for security reasons.)

This is almost certainly your issue.

-Ken