On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:34:31PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:

 > 	I disagree.  in most of the NIS installations (from my university
 > 	days) they used NIS domain name totally different from DNS domain name,
 > 	I saw documents that recommended strongly against the use of the
 > 	same string, because of "security from obscurity" reasons.
 > 	anyway, i do not feel like merging the part of the patch.

Indeed -- I have almost never tied NIS domain to DNS domain.  In many
environments I've worked in, a single DNS domain or sub-domain might
have had 3 or 4 NIS domains.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>