Summary
Solaris 9 supports six name services that provide a central location for storing information used by users and systems to communicate with each other across the network. The name service not only stores the information, but also provides mechanisms to manage and access that information.
The /etc files, NIS, and NIS+ are considered enterprise-level naming services, whereas FNS, DNS, and LDAP are considered global-level naming services. Of these, DNS is the only name service used by the Internet.
The name service switch is used to determine which naming services to be used and the order in which they should be queried.
NIS is a distributed name service. It is a mechanism for identifying and locating network objects and resources. It provides ...
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