Re: [Dovecot] Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server

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?