Problem with ypset

[Isidore G Bendrihem]

Several months ago, there was discussion about a client machine ypbinding
to a server that is not in the same subnet.  The solution was to run

ypset SERVER_IP_ADDR

right after the invocation of ypbind in the client's rc.local file.  This
works fine, except that if the server is rebooted or for some other
reason, the connection between server and client is broken, the client
will hang trying to reestablish the connection (it ignores the IP address
set with ypset).  This results on the owner of the client machine having
to do a reboot.

I figure there should be a simple way to periodically check the status of
the client-server connection and re-ypset to the server if it is broken.
Is this possible?  Any suggestions to how one would go about it would be
greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

Isidore Bendrihem
VLSI Laboratory
Columbia University