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This was the step I was missing...

Thanks for reminding me!

Volkmar

Yes, DNS lookups are ok in both ways. However, there is another evidence that netgroups are not supposed to work with nfs in ubuntu:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpNFSHowTo#NIS
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I can confirm this:

nsswitch setup is fine, getent netgroup returns the desired entries in the format

mynetgroup (myhost.f.q.d.n, , )

A sample ldif entry looks like this:


# LDIF Export...