NFS, RFS and the meaning of life

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <2225 at brl-adm.ARPA> bzs at bu-cs.bu.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>Also, re Doug Gwyn's question about "is yp_ a necessary part of NFS?"

People have since informed me that NFS can exist without YP,
and indeed at least one major vendor provides NFS but not YP.
Our local YP-worker doesn't like it much either.

>... I'd sure hate to try to keep a few dozen
>/etc/hosts files et alia up to date (and growing.)

That's what domain name servers are for.