I have followed this documentation for enabling an automount to show up for a NIS client that is bound to FreeIPA, and it worked as expected and the NIS client can see the automount:
I then went back and dumped the entire ldap tree out of curiosity to see my changes I just added, and they are not there. If I search for the keys "nis-base" or "nis-domain" for example, it's no where to be found.
Where did this change actually go? I feel like I'm going crazy! :)
Thanks for the help in furthering my understanding!