On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:17:43PM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > > > > I belive i have seen on this maling list*, and other internet fourms** > > > > some > > > > limitation of NIS, but i have failed to find a documented limiation from > > > > SUN, or from the various linux distrubutions, did any one try to > > > > research > > > > the scalability of NIS servers? > > > > > > The standard answer, if you only rarely push, is to make every client > > > a slave. > > > > The less violent solution is to simply run nscd (name service caching > > daemon) on all clients - that will take a lot of the load off of both > > your NIS and DNS servers :) > > I have deep admiration for DNS, and quite a lot of scorn for > various other systems that try to do similar things, poorly. > for instance, LDAP works, but that's the best you can say for it. > imagine if the LDAP folk had thought of how to use DNS as a > directory infrastructure (but alas, they were x500 recidivists ;)
The Rocks Linux toolkit comes with a name service called "411". It seems to be a mechanism for distributing password, group and other such files to a cluster's nodes. I've never used it. Anybody care to comment on how well it works? David S. > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
