The intent of the N2L service is to serve as a transition tool from using NIS to using LDAP. Do not use the N2L service in these situations:
In an environment where you do not plan to share data between NIS and LDAP naming service clients
In such an environment, an N2L server would serve as an excessively complex NIS master server.
In an environment where NIS maps are managed by tools that modify the NIS source files (other than yppasswd)
Regeneration of NIS sources from DIT maps is an imprecise task that requires manual checking of the resulting maps. Once the N2L service is used, regeneration of NIS sources is provided only for backout or reverting to NIS.
In an environment with no NIS clients
In such an environment, use LDAP naming service clients and their corresponding tools.