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From: Startup@cup.portal.com (Startup Consulting Company)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Rolling Your Own Name Service
Message-ID: <43318@cup.portal.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 22:19:27 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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I'm wondering about the efficacy and limitations of different 
approaches for rolling your own name service with Novell.  One 
approach might be to logon to each server and read the bindery 
and cache and sort all of the names on the various servers
into one master list.  Are there other approaches that others
have tried with any success?  Are there fatal limitations to
the approach I suggest?  I realize that Novell will (eventually)
have a name service.  I need something that doesn't cost any
additional money, and that is available to any combination of
286 and 386 servers.  I realize that my approach can't guarantee
up-to-the-moment accuracy, but it would give sufficient information
for my purpose (I hope).

Dave