NIS on SuSE 8.0

Hi All & Thorsten K. We're running 12 SuSE NIS slave servers and I'm in the process of upgrading them from 6.4/7.0/7.2 to 8.0. Unfortunately we have intermittent issues where one machine is hammered by client requests until it's battered into submission. When it stops responding the clients all move to the next-fastest responding NIS server and so on .... This is still a problem for the SuSE 8.0 servers. Has anyone looked at a load balancing system for NIS servers or any other solution for clients jumping en-masse to the next server ? Thanks, Damian -- using: SuSE Linux 8.0 9:40am up 69 days, 20:12, 15 users, load average: 0.18, 0.27, 0.26