Re: Delay in authentication.gy

[Alan Cox]

> It was intentionally changed because there is no way for the "ICMP
> port unreachable" message coming back to be uniquely matched to that
> UDP socket.  It can reset sockets illegally in high load scenerios.
> 
> Solaris and other systems act identically.

And have identical bad problems with auth failures. Right now I've given up
trying to make 2.4 and YP mix because my RH setup assumes NIS auth will fail
fast during boot up scripts and it doesnt.

Unfortunately for the quickfix folks, Dave is right about needing to sort it,
and that means someone has to sort glibc to use the new interfaces