NIS/NIS+ Over IPv6 Transports

Users can store IPv6 addresses in the NIS, NIS+, and DNS naming services, and also use NIS and NIS+ over IPv6 RPC transports to retrieve any NIS or NIS+ data. Two new maps have been added for NIS: ipnodes.byname and ipnodes.byaddr. These maps can contain both IPv4 and IPv6 information. A new table, ipnodes.org_dir, has been added for NIS+, and it can also contain both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. While use of the new ipnodes(4) database is preferred for both IPv4 and IPv6, the hosts(4) database continues to be supported for IPv4 addresses.

For more information, see the System Administration Guide, Volume 3.