LDAP-UX Integration Performance and Tuning Guidelines

Glossary

DNS Domain Name System. A highly distributed directory service designed to efficiently serve a

host/address database.

Index A sorted (usually a binary b-tree) structure of keys, used to quickly reference information based on

that key

Name Service Provides information about objects to applications via name service APIs. As an example, DNS is

a name service system that supports the gethostent() family of calls. NIS

is another name service

subsystem that supports a wide variety of name service APIs which includes: getpwnam(),

gethostbyaddr(), innetgr(), getgruid(), etc…

NIS Network Information Service. Originally known as yellow pages. NIS is a Name subsystem that

for is used collections of systems grouped under domains. NIS clients access a shared repository

on (a) shared NIS server(s) over a LAN.

request In this document a request is defined to be a search operation generated by a single call to one of

the name service routines (getpwnam for example.)

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