Installation guide

The DIGITAL UNIX system has the bindsetup command, which allows

you to conﬁgure your system as a BIND client or server.

The DIGITAL UNIX system has the nslookup and nsquery commands to

allow you to get host information from BIND. For information about these

commands, see nslookup

(8) and nsquery(8).

4.15.2 Network Information Services

The Network Informtion Service (NIS) is a distributed database lookup

service for sharing information between systems on a network. The

DIGITAL UNIX NIS supports the network distribution of the following

databases:

• aliases

• group

• hosts

• netgroup

• networks

• passwd

• protocols

• rpc (from ONC RPC)

• services

These databases have the same format on a DIGITAL UNIX system as

they do on an ULTRIX system, with one exception. On a DIGITAL UNIX

system, only the root account is allowed to have a user identiﬁcation

(UID) of 0. On ULTRIX, other accounts can also have a UID of 0.

You can use the nissetup command on a DIGITAL UNIX system to set up

NIS interactively. On ULTRIX systems, you used the ypsetup command.

This command operates the same on DIGITAL UNIX systems as it does on

ULTRIX systems, but it has some additional features. You can also set up

NIS by manually using the following commands:

• domainname, which sets the name of the current NIS domain

• makedbm, which creates a NIS servers map

• ypxfr, which transfers an NIS map from a server to a local host

You must also start the NIS daemons, such as the ypserv, ypbind, and

yppasswdd daemons. The steps you take, daemons you start, and

commands you use to set up NIS manually are different on a DIGITAL

UNIX system. For example, on the DIGITAL UNIX system, you edit the

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