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Subject: Re: Mixing vaxen and suns on NFS
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Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 18:31:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  2 18:31:28 1987
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Summary: April fool?

In article <135@ausmelb.OZ>, boyd@ausmelb.OZ (Boyd Roberts ) writes:
> Where are the name servers?  Don't say ``yp''.  Because all it does is
> is provide one global /etc/passwd.  And, very badly at that.  You can
> do this by simply moving /etc/passwd to globally known place. 

I hope this pack of lies was an April fool!

Yellow Pages is an network service that provides mappings between pairs
of strings.  We use this service to do the mappings that used to be done
by some of the /etc/ files on stand-alone systems.  However, YP also
provides an update mechanism, higher performance, random access, load
sharing, and many other features.  For example, our YP domain has
over 50 servers, about 700 machines and about 1500 users in several
buildings in several cities. Try doing that with symbolic links!

Administration of large networks is a hard problem; YP does not
provide all the solutions, but some kind of network service is a start.

	- Bill Nowicki
	  Sun Microsystems