Programs using networked services may stop responding if the host is disconnected

Programs using networked services (for example, NIS, NFS, RPC, or a TCP socket connection to a remote host) can stop responding if the host is disconnected from the network. If such a program is used as an agent entry point, a network disconnect can cause the entry point to stop responding and possibly time out.

For example, if the host is configured to use NIS maps as a client, basic commands such as ps -ef can hang if there is network disconnect.

Arctera recommends creating users locally. To reflect local users, configure:

/etc/nsswitch.conf