Inside Solaris™ 9

Name Service, Domain Name, and Name Server Keywords

The following keywords are related to the name service you will be using:

name_service=<value> 

This keyword is assigned one of five values that specify the name service to be used: NIS, NIS+, LDAP, DNS, NONE. For example, if you are using NIS, specify the following:

name_service=NIS 

For the NIS and NIS+ values, additional keywords are specified:

domain_name=<value> 

Here, the <value> is the domain name, such as pyramid.com.

name_server=<value> 

Here, the <value> is the hostname or IP address for the name server. For the name_server <value>, you can specify up to three IP addresses for the name_server. For example:

name_server=192.168.0.1,192.168.0.2,192.168.0.3 

If the DNS keyword ...