Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!sun!ingersoll!sxn From: sxn%ingersoll@Sun.COM (Stephen X. Nahm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: NFS/YP alternative Message-ID: <58815@sun.uucp> Date: 3 Jul 88 21:06:36 GMT References: <580@n8emr.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: sxn@sun.UUCP (Stephen X. Nahm) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 14 Distribution: Keywords: In article <580@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes: >I have two questions. First, can anyone explain why Yellow Pages requires >the files served to be in a DBM format? YP doesn't require this. The implementation of YP that Sun has built is based on DBM. However, YP is an ONC service, and the interface that defines it is its protocol specification. An RPCGEN-ready version of this specification is included in the latest release of RPCSRC, version 3.9, which is the unlicensed implementation of RPC/XDR and associated utilities. A YP server can use any data storage technology it pleases to manage the data under its purview. Steve Nahm sxn@sun.COM or sun!sxn