[1475] in bugtraq
Re: Obtaining NIS domainname from Gatorbox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lawrence R. Rogers)
Fri Apr 14 20:49:35 1995
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@esi.com.au>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 13 Apr 1995 12:41:11 +1000 (EST)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 17:39:51 -0400
From: "Lawrence R. Rogers" <lrr@Princeton.EDU>
> On Wed, 12 Apr 1995, der Mouse wrote:
>
> > > Maybe a good reason to join the crowd and not run NIS?
> >
> > I wish. It's clear to me that NIS is a big problem. But what else is
> > out there? We have a definite need to share passwd databases across
> > many machines, from multiple vendors, none of which we have source code
> > to. How close to a solution can we get?
>
> A wild idea, straight off the top of my head: what about using the DNS
> mechanisms? Apologies if this has been suggested and flamed before...
>
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Isn't that called hesiod?
Larry Rogers
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