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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: NFS, RFS and the meaning of life
Message-ID: <5504@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 14:14:59 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5504
Posted: Fri Jan  9 14:14:59 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Jan-87 21:52:41 EST
References: <2225@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2225@brl-adm.ARPA> bzs@bu-cs.bu.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>Also, re Doug Gwyn's question about "is yp_ a necessary part of NFS?"

People have since informed me that NFS can exist without YP,
and indeed at least one major vendor provides NFS but not YP.
Our local YP-worker doesn't like it much either.

>... I'd sure hate to try to keep a few dozen
>/etc/hosts files et alia up to date (and growing.)

That's what domain name servers are for.