Re: Obtaining NIS domainname from Gatorbox

[mattm () alaska net (Matt T. Mannhardt)]

On Thu, 13 Apr 1995, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Apr 1995, der Mouse wrote:
>
> > > Maybe a good reason to join the crowd and not run NIS?
> >
> > I wish.  It's clear to me that NIS is a big problem.  But what else is
> > out there?  We have a definite need to share passwd databases across
> > many machines, from multiple vendors, none of which we have source code
> > to.  How close to a solution can we get?
>
> A wild idea, straight off the top of my head: what about using the DNS
> mechanisms?  Apologies if this has been suggested and flamed before...
>
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What, you mean like bind hesiod?  What about rdist?  Heard of large Universities
taking both of these approaches although I've only seen the former and played with 
the later in conjuction with NIS.  But that was a prior life and I don't do that
stuff any more ;-)   [ yet, :-O ]

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