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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!MathWorks.Com!news.cic.net!locust.cic.net!pauls From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: YP or NIS? (was Re: problem with ppp-2.1.2 interfaces & routes,) Date: 30 Sep 1994 22:22:02 GMT Organization: CICNet, Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <36i32a$7hj@spruce.cic.net> References: <35t7c8$167@fasterix.frmug.fr.net> <36i0o5$p20@infmx.informix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: locust.cic.net In article <36i0o5$p20@infmx.informix.com>, Tom Demott <tdemott@informix.com> wrote: >I'm writing a chapter in a manual that has to do with >client/server connectivity. I have some doubt whether >I can use the term Yellow Pages and expect readers to >know what I'm referring to. Yellow Pages is an outdated term. No currently distributed software is known by that name, due to British Telecom's charge that Sun Microsystems infringed upon their trademark of that name. NIS is the name Sun chose to replace it. >Is the term Yellow Pages or NIS, specific to BSD UNIX? No. >I imagine that system 5 has a set of services similar >to the yellow pages of BSD UNIX. What is the name of >the system 5 service? Most vendors implement NIS, and almost all of them call it NIS. -- Paul Southworth CICNet Systems Support pauls@cic.net