Inside Solaris™ 9

Planning Your NIS Domain

Before you configure systems as NIS servers or clients, you must plan the NIS domain. Each domain has a domain name, and each system sharing the common set of maps belongs to that domain.

Exercise 23.1 Planning Your NIS Domain

Follow these steps to plan your domain:

1.

Decide which systems will be in your NIS domain.

2.

Choose an NIS domain name. An NIS domain name can be up to 256 characters long, although much shorter names are more practical. A good practice is to limit domain names to no more than 32 characters. Domain names are case sensitive. For convenience, you can use your Internet domain name as the basis for your NIS domain name. For example, if your Internet domain name is example.com, you can name ...