[newbie] ypbind error message

[chughes]

In monitoring the /var/log/messages file I notice the following message being
issued every minute:

ns1 ypbind[31484]: broadcast: RPC: Timed out.

What is ypbind?

Christopher Hughes
RPM Consulting, Inc.
7130 Minstrel Way, Suite 230
Columbia, MD 21045
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