ONCplus B.11.31.02 Release Notes

New NIS Features in ONCplus B.11.31.02
NIS introduces the following features:
• Support for IPv6 Protocol
The NIS clients and servers are now IPv6 enabled. Therefore, you can set up an NIS master
server, an NIS slave server, or an NIS client that can be identified using an IPv6 address.
The IPv6 information is stored in ipnodes, which are supersets of hosts that act as the new
databases for IPv6 information.
• Support for Resolving Map Nicknames
NIS supports the creation of nicknames for maps. You can create or update the nicknames
associated with the maps. The ypcat and ypmatch commands use the
/var/yp/nicknames file to resolve or modify nicknames.
• Support for NIS ypbind v3 Protocol
The NIS client supports version 3 of the ypbind protocol. Version 1 of the ypbind protocol
is obsolete and any request from an NIS client to ypbind version 1 is rejected.
• Reduced Usage of Reserved Ports
Reserved ports are the ports from 0 to 1024 and only root users can bind to these ports. In
previous releases, NIS commands attempted to bind to reserved ports by default. If there
are numerous client requests, all the reserved ports can be consumed. This version of NIS
enables binding to reserved ports for select commands or daemons when accessing secure
maps, which results in reduced usage of reserved ports by NIS. This change does not
compromise on performance or security.
Fixes in ONCplus
This section lists the fixes for ONCplus and also specifies the version number of ONCplus in
which the defect was fixed.
Fixes
Table 1-1 describes the problems that have been fixed and incorporated into ONCplus.
Table 1-1 Software Fixes
ONCplus VersionDescriptionCR ID
B.11.31.02
Performance improvement in NFS client WRITE path.
QXCR1000584936
B.11.31.02Added support for ACL's and logging in CacheFS.QXCR1000585229
B.11.31.02
Added an interface for assigning a port number for the rpc.pcnfsd
daemon.
QXCR1000587643
B.11.31.02
The nfs4bcd daemon is not terminated by “nfs.client stop” after enabling
NFS client in smh.
QXCR1000590350
B.11.31.02The share_nfs(1M) manpage must warn about the limitations of the
-access option.
QXCR1000590569
B.11.31.02An NFS mount fails if the shared hostname is longer than eight characters.QXCR1000590702
B.11.31.02
The automountd daemon is not terminated by “autofs stop” after
enabling automounter in smh.
QXCR1000590739
B.11.31.02CacheFS does not support locking a region of a file beyond a 2 TB offset.QXCR1000591016
B.11.31.02The readdirplus transfer size should be greater than 8K.QXCR1000591305
B.11.31.02
Added support to disable readdirplus functionality from the NFS mount
command.
QXCR1000591307
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