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- From: jonathan@gabriel.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: NIS vs DNS
- Message-ID: <BuCxxt.D97@gabriel.keele.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 10:17:52 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.002722.12730@den.mmc.com>
- Organization: Keele University, England
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- jzwiebel@pgl-devsvr.den.mmc.com (John Zwiebel (303)977-1480) writes:
- >This is a poll. For those of you who made a concious choice to use DNS
- >instead of NIS (or the other way around) Why?
-
- We run NIS and DNS using the Sun approved method. Each NIS master has
- a resolv.conf which it uses when a host lookup isn't in the NIS maps.
-
- Here's why:
- 1) The software is maintained by Sun so they fix the bugs.
- 2) The installation is simple and doesn't involve messing with
- libraries and things each time you install the operating system.
- (We don't have the person power to invest in this).
- 3) When a new client is added it is already able to use the DNS service.
- You only have to worry about the NIS masters.
- 4) It works well.
- 5) The NIS master processes the hosts.txt file to produce a hosts,
- networks and netmasks file, so all the NIS clients get these too
- at no extra administrative cost.
-