NIS in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment

The following NIS features are new or different in Solaris 8 Operating Envirnment.

NIS and IPv6

New ipnodes maps (ipnodes.byaddr and ipnodes.byname)are added to NIS. They store both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses (see the ipnodes(4) man page. NIS clients and servers can communicate using either IPv4 or IPv6 RPC transports.