diff --git a/00102-2.7.13-lib64.patch b/00102-2.7.13-lib64.patch
index 5d20879..5a87d03 100644
--- a/00102-2.7.13-lib64.patch
+++ b/00102-2.7.13-lib64.patch
@@ -104,6 +104,15 @@ diff --git a/Modules/Setup.dist b/Modules/Setup.dist
 index fbfa1c1..138fb33 100644
 --- a/Modules/Setup.dist
 +++ b/Modules/Setup.dist
+@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@
+ # Some more UNIX dependent modules -- off by default, since these
+ # are not supported by all UNIX systems:
+ 
+-nis nismodule.c -lnsl -ltirpc -I/usr/include/tirpc -I/usr/include/nsl -L/usr/lib/nsl
++nis nismodule.c -lnsl -ltirpc -I/usr/include/tirpc -I/usr/include/nsl -L/usr/lib64/nsl
+ termios termios.c	# Steen Lumholt's termios module
+ resource resource.c	# Jeremy Hylton's rlimit interface
+ 
 @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ gdbm gdbmmodule.c -lgdbm
  # Edit the variables DB and DBLIBVERto point to the db top directory
  # and the subdirectory of PORT where you built it.
diff --git a/00289-disable-nis-detection.patch b/00289-disable-nis-detection.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..baf69b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/00289-disable-nis-detection.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+diff a/setup.py b/setup.py
+--- a/setup.py	2018-01-17 11:58:45.384354567 +0100
++++ b/setup.py	2018-01-17 11:54:23.384743168 +0100
+@@ -1346,19 +1346,10 @@
+             else:
+                 missing.append('resource')
+ 
+-            # Sun yellow pages. Some systems have the functions in libc.
+-            if (host_platform not in ['cygwin', 'atheos', 'qnx6'] and
+-                find_file('rpcsvc/yp_prot.h', inc_dirs, []) is not None):
+-                if (self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'nsl')):
+-                    libs = ['nsl']
+-                else:
+-                    libs = []
+-                exts.append( Extension('nis', ['nismodule.c'],
+-                                       libraries = libs) )
+-            else:
+-                missing.append('nis')
++            # nis (Sun yellow pages) is handled in Setup.dist
++
+         else:
+-            missing.extend(['nis', 'resource', 'termios'])
++            missing.extend(['resource', 'termios'])
+ 
+         # Curses support, requiring the System V version of curses, often
+         # provided by the ncurses library.
diff --git a/python-2.7.1-config.patch b/python-2.7.1-config.patch
index 6976d5c..5c8bd43 100644
--- a/python-2.7.1-config.patch
+++ b/python-2.7.1-config.patch
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
 -#nis nismodule.c -lnsl	# Sun yellow pages -- not everywhere
 -#termios termios.c	# Steen Lumholt's termios module
 -#resource resource.c	# Jeremy Hylton's rlimit interface
-+nis nismodule.c -lnsl	# Sun yellow pages -- not everywhere
++nis nismodule.c -lnsl -ltirpc -I/usr/include/tirpc -I/usr/include/nsl -L/usr/lib/nsl
 +termios termios.c	# Steen Lumholt's termios module
 +resource resource.c	# Jeremy Hylton's rlimit interface
  
diff --git a/python2.spec b/python2.spec
index de0323d..77265df 100644
--- a/python2.spec
+++ b/python2.spec
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ Summary: An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
 Name: %{python}
 # Remember to also rebase python-docs when changing this:
 Version: 2.7.14
-Release: 6%{?dist}
+Release: 7%{?dist}
 License: Python
 Group: Development/Languages
 Requires: %{python}-libs%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ BuildRequires: readline-devel
 BuildRequires: sqlite-devel
 BuildRequires: tcl-devel
 
+# For the nis module
+BuildRequires: libnsl2-devel
+BuildRequires: libtirpc-devel
+
 # expat 2.1.0 added the symbol XML_SetHashSalt without bumping SONAME.  We use
 # it (in pyexpat) in order to enable the fix in Python-2.7.3 for CVE-2012-0876:
 BuildRequires: expat-devel >= 2.1.0
@@ -228,6 +232,7 @@ Source7: pynche
 #   - various modules are built by default by upstream as static libraries;
 #   we built them as shared libraries
 #   - build the "readline" module (appears to also be handled by setup.py now)
+#   - build the nis module (which needs the tirpc library since glibc 2.26)
 #   - enable the build of the following modules:
 #     - array arraymodule.c	# array objects
 #     - cmath cmathmodule.c # -lm # complex math library functions
@@ -254,7 +259,6 @@ Source7: pynche
 #     - _socket socketmodule.c  # Socket module helper for socket(2)
 #     - _ssl _ssl.c
 #     - crypt cryptmodule.c -lcrypt	# crypt(3)
-#     - nis nismodule.c -lnsl	# Sun yellow pages -- not everywhere
 #     - termios termios.c	# Steen Lumholt's termios module
 #     - resource resource.c	# Jeremy Hylton's rlimit interface
 #     - audioop audioop.c	# Operations on audio samples
@@ -754,6 +758,11 @@ Patch285: 00285-fix-non-deterministic-read-in-test_pty.patch
 # Fixed upstream: https://bugs.python.org/issue32186
 Patch287: 00287-fix-thread-hanging-on-inaccessible-nfs-server.patch
 
+# 00289 #
+# Disable automatic detection for the nis module
+# (we handle it it in Setup.dist, see Patch0)
+Patch289: 00289-disable-nis-detection.patch
+
 # (New patches go here ^^^)
 #
 # When adding new patches to "python2" and "python3" in Fedora, EL, etc.,
@@ -1077,6 +1086,7 @@ mv Modules/cryptmodule.c Modules/_cryptmodule.c
 %patch284 -p1
 %patch285 -p1
 %patch287 -p1
+%patch289 -p1
 
 
 %if 0%{?_module_build}
@@ -1957,6 +1967,9 @@ rm -fr %{buildroot}
 # ======================================================
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jan 17 2018 Petr Viktorin <pviktori@redhat.com> - 2.7.14-7
+- Build the nis module with tirpc
+
 * Tue Jan 16 2018 Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> - 2.7.14-6
 - Rebuild for reverted gdbm 1.13 on Fedora 27