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From: Startup@cup.portal.com (Startup Consulting Company)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Roll Your Own Name Service
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Date: 14 Jun 91 22:42:43 GMT
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I'm curious about approaches that are used
to create name services under UNIX.  Are Sun's
White/Yellow pages the only widely used standard?
If you were trying to get a list of all the users on
all UNIX machines in a well-defined Internet, how would you
do it if some users were using white/yellow pages, others
were using OSF's directory service, etc.?  

Dave