I don't know whether a 'me too' comment is still relevant but I must add that 
in my network we experienced the almost exact same problem as Alex, with 
overall laggy, and only randomly successful reboots.
This randomness seemed to depend a bit on hardware, as certain groups of boxes 
of boxes would be more susceptible to it, but in the end it just reflects the 
race condition Steve described. 

The problem was effectively solved by upgrading to 12.04 and patching
/etc/init/portmap-wait.conf as per Steve's suggestion (#17). The problem
could not be fixed on 11.10 as per the same patch, which I guess makes
sense because NIS was not an upstart job back then.

Since all our NIS- and NFS-related lookups are done via hosts file I
cannot comment on the subsequent problems Alex encountered.

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