NFS, DNS, NIS and NIS+… that’s a lot of acronyms!<\/p>\n
Network File System<\/strong><\/p>\n NFS is Sun’s Networked File System, and by now, more or less, the de facto method of sharing file systems between computers.<\/p>\n Domain Name Service<\/strong><\/p>\n DNS is the Domain Name Service, which is the way information about hostnames and addresses are shared across the Intenet.<\/p>\n Network Information (Name) Service<\/strong><\/p>\n NIS stands for Network Information Name Service. It was original called Yellow Pages, which is why many of the commands for NIS start with yp (such as ypbind<\/strong>, ypcat<\/strong>, etc.) NIS was developed by Sun, and is, like NFS, more or less the default way of sharing system information between UNIX machines.<\/p>\n NIS+<\/strong><\/p>\n NIS+ is Sun’s re-implementation of NIS. It attempts to address some of the problems with NIS, but the implementers of NIS+ have made a series of bad choices in the design of NIS+, so it has seen only limited usage compared to the other types of services you asked about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NFS, DNS, NIS and NIS+… that’s a lot of acronyms! Network File System NFS is Sun’s Networked File System, and by now, more or less, the de facto method of sharing file systems between computers. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}