NetInfo stability Issues (Score 1)

In regard to the original article's issue, most of the NetInfo timeout issues that I have ever seen relate to the the NetInfo server being configured to gather information from a NetInfo parent. If no valid NetInfo parent exists the issues that the poster described will occur. I have resolved all of these issues by one of two solutions. The first as a previous respondent indicated was to turn off the option for the comptuer ( client or server ) to look for directory information in NetInfo. The second is to remove the 'serves' property under the the NetInfo path /machines/broadcasthost. Removing this property will prevent the NetInfo server from looking for a parent. In the Mac OS X server install that I have, there was an empty network NetInfo database. The serves property pointed to it ( with the NI path ../network ) as the the value on the 'serves' property. So removing the property will prevent the NetInfo database from continuing to look for a parent which either does not exist or is blank.
Many thanks go to www.darwinfo.org ( now www.opendarwin.org ) and the FAQ with answers from Mark Majka ( sp ? ) for answering this question for me.
I would agree that details on how NetInfo works exactly are very scant from Apple. And in answer to my NetInfo questions from an 'Apple Systems Engineer' was 'it just works'.
I would also recommend looking around for old NeXT NetInfo documents, as I have found a lot of useful information regarding the setup of NetInfo from them.