Malformed name, or illegal name

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

John Aasen wrote:
> We have got a problem with our Linux NIS+ clients.
[snip]
> I am in no way an expert in sockets and understanding 
> tcpdump, so I may be completely wrong in my interpretation.
> 
> Has anyone seen this behaviour before and got any solutions 
> to how I can get past it?

I've seen this before, but I don't have any solutions.