Re: Large Distributed Linux Networks

Gabriele Paciucci (paciucci@pcainf11.ing.uniroma1.it)
Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:25:52 +0200 (MET DST)


Kukuk's and his team are starting the NIS+ Project, if there are anybody
that want to implement the first packages in non critical situation, could
help the development team!

http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html

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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I don't want to make a huge issue out of this, but I'm wondering
> > how many people are building large distributed networks on top of Linux,
> > and what luck/experiences they've had. By distributed, I mean using
>
> We are distributing user data over a wide area network however we are not
> using NIS (too insecure) or NFS (target practice ;)).
>
> > FWIW, using libc-5.4.33 and ypclients-2.2-970318 seems to make a fairly
> > decent NIS implementation. But I've never been able to keep even the
> > latest AMD up with it for more than 47 days.
>
> Alas on AMD I can't help
>