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From: pvo1478@neptune.uucp (Paul O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: BIND named
Summary: play 1/2 the YP game
Keywords: YP /etc/passwd namesevice
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Date: 21 Feb 89 09:55:02 GMT
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In article <9360@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Tso) writes:
>
>Anyway, the trick is to start ypserv as ypserv -i, so that the YP will
>forward hostname resolutions to named.  Unfortunately, that means that
>you have to play the entire YP game, ..........................

Actually, you can play 1/2 the YP game.  Don't put the `+' in /etc/passwd
that enables users from the YP database.  Now, if you have an existing 
YP server, you get all the name-service goodies from it by running ypbind
on your NeXT.  You don't get all the yppasswd security bugs.  Just about
the only down side I can think of is you'll be dead-in-the-water whenever
your server crashes.

Moto: Let someone who knows what they're doing manage the nameserver.  You
get all the services "for free."

I ran ypbind on our cube for the first couple days it was here.  All the
nameservice and mail-alias stuff seemed to work great.  The boss said to
turn it off, though, cuz' the NeXT docs said it would interfere with other
applications.  Has anyone run 0.8's ypbind for extended periods.  Is it
up to snuff?

(Frankly, it seems to crash just as often now as it did when ypbind was
running :-)


Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-754-3251