[Dovecot] Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server

[Timo Sirainen]

On Oct 2, 2009, at 7:14 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote:

> the machine is Debian etch 64 bits
> dovecot 1.2.5 has been compiled on the machine
> it run NIS client to a YPLDAPD server
..
> Oct 02 12:15:27 auth(default): Error: do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC:  
> Timed out
> Oct 02 12:15:33 pop3-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake  
> from auth server. my pid=16755, input bytes=0
> Oct 02 12:15:46 auth(default): Error: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not  
> bound
> Oct 02 12:15:46 pop3-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake  
> from auth server. my pid=16760, input bytes=0

Sounds like your YPLDAPD is responding too slowly. It might help if  
you add blocking=yes to userdb (and passdb?) args. You're using pam/ 
passwd I guess?