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Try ypinit -s master. This will make it a slave server and you'll have a copy of the maps locally. You can always undo it.

I noticed that the line for node1 is commented out in you /etc/hosts file.

Also, have you tried running ypinit -c from the client?
It should prompt for the server to bind to. You can use the ip...

What OS are you trying to run this on?
Do you have other clients bound to the NIS host?
What is in /etc/defaultdomain?
What is in /etc/yp.conf?
Is the NIS master in your /etc/hosts file?
What do...