ONC+ Release Notes

ONC+ Release Notes
Announcement
Chapter 16
NIS+ Obsolescence Notice
The Network Information Service Plus (NIS+), is a distributed database system that enables
the maintenance of commonly used configuration information on a master server, and
propagates the information to all the hosts in the network. Starting with HP-UX 11i v3, NIS+
is no longer supported. HP recommends that users migrate to LDAP.
NOTE For information on how to migrate from NIS+ to LDAP, see NIS+ to LDAP
Migration Guide:
http://docs.hp.com/en/J4269-90054/J4269-90054.pdf
NIS Protocol Version 1 Deprecation Notice
The NIS protocol version 1 (NISv1) is deprecated on the NIS client for the current release, and
it will be removed in a future version of NIS. However, the NIS server, ypserv, will continue
to support NISv1.
The NISv1 protocol deprecation impacts an NIS client application that uses the NISv1
protocol in the following scenarios:
• The NIS client uses the -v1 option of the ypwhich or the ypset command.
• An application directly communicates with the ypbind Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
version 1.
• An application includes the ypv1_prot.h header file.
HP recommends that you migrate to the next version of the NIS protocol, NIS version 2
(NISv2), because NISv2 supports all the functionalities that NISv1 supports.
NOTE By default, HP-UX 11i uses the NISv2 protocol, unless the ypwhich or the
ypset command is explicitly used with the -v1 option, or an application
specifically communicates with the ypbind RPC version 1.